Spam - No longer just a can of meat...

I posted two somewhat related issues - A Brazilian Doomsday Fraud and a chain-email that purportedly will make you the next Bill Gates simply by continuing to forward the chain-email until Bill Gates himself writes you a check for a gazillion dollars. Today, I wanted to show you my inbox to give you an idea of why "friends" that forward Spam really boil my blood.

At right is a screen shot of Microsoft Outlook from my work computer. Underlined in red is my SpamFighter Folder. Yes, I have a Spam filter but consider how many people don't have Spam Filters. Consider how much time is wasted sifting through your email to find the valid messages from the ones that offer to sell your dog Viagra to help solve Rover's ADHD issues.

When I took this shot a minute ago, there were 10290 pieces of Spam in my SpamFighter folder. A minute later, there are 5 more. These 10K plus messages were collected over a period of a week. A WEEK!!! I normally empty this folder at the end of the day but decided to track and see how much Spam I get in a week and now that I have well over 10K, I think I'm going to keep these messages until I reach 100K and will track how long it takes... then I can save all of these messages in a zip file and send them to each and everyone of the "friends" that sends me a chain-email. That sounds like more fun...

So for any of you that are thinking of sending a chain-email, you are now officially being put on NOTICE. If you send me such an email, beware because it will come back to you tenfold!