I get a lot of email spam. I’m sure others get a lot more, but I’m fed up with the amount of spam I get. I estimate I average 75 pieces of spam a day. For some of the most tasteless products available, too, I might add. And even though I have a spam filter, I still have to check out the spam twice a day because real email gets caught in the spam filter.
This is just on my main email box; I have 4 home email address, and 3 of them get no spam, or maybe 1 piece per week. And my work email address gets no spam at all.
I don’t get “comment spam,” at least not yet. Apparently these spambots will happily post their trash on this website as soon as they find me. Yuck, I can hardly wait.
These are the emails I’ve received in the last 2 hours:
- Loretta Oneil “Be your own boss… ” Apparently, I can become my own boss. My name will be Eduardo, because that’s the name of my boss. I don’t know who Eddie will be.
- ejyynubwiocut@aol.com “new improved replacement for v1agra” Notice how they misspell “viagra” with the number 1. They mispell it with periods and spaces, too – “vi.agra,” “via gra” – so you can’t setup a filter to catch it automatically.
- Althea Warren “Check out your boyfriend” Er.. actually, lately, I’ve been my own boyfriend. Thanks for the flowers!
- Ambrose Benny “Hello.” That’s it? Just Hello?
- Joey Brady “Flight# 8399 Rio De Janeiro” Now we’re talking – Ambrose just says Hello, but Joey wants me to go to Rio De Janeiro!
- Rob “do you like old ladies?” The older I get, the younger all women get. There are no old women anymore, they’re all spring chickens now. 🙂
- Bret Roberts “cominform” I dunno what Bret is trying to say.
- metcalf@mcs.net “software” I dunno what metcalf is trying to say, either.
- Carson Tobin “Toronto Pharmacy Prescriptions” If I actually took medicine, Carson thinks I need to get it from Canada.
- Sophie Goode “get p:opular so:ftw.are at disco;unt pri,ces” This is like playing “Wheel of Fortune.” See if you can spot the misspelled word.
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