Creative Spamming

I get lots of creative spam too. My first thought when I get it is 'who would be stupid enough to open this?!" I get lots that are nothing more than a series of garbled letters that spell nothing...again, who would want to open that because you'd know that it was either spam or something with a trojan in it. And the ones that are from supposedly legitimate small business try and be clever to catch your attention, but usually the clever tricky tactics almost never work. I agree, it they'd do the way they are supposed to, build their own lists from visitors and all, they would have a legitimate way of presenting their offerings without having to resort to spamming. I don't know why, but I get a lot of spam for viagra and stuff like that. Haven't a clue how I got on the list for every spammer in the world hawking it, but I somehow believe almost everybody eventually gets spammed with these. So, I put a filter on, anything that says 'viagra' goes directly to the trash bin. Now the spammers send them vi-ag-ra, via-gra, and all kinds of different spellings lol, just so they can by-pass the filter. Do they honestly think that just because they've passed my filters with lousy phonetic spelling that I'm going to open it and order from them? Not that I would ever need or buy it, but you have to wonder what the spammers are thinking hahaha. "Yes, they WILL buy from me because I spell rotten and I'm clever enough to get through spam filters" ....pretty stupid (as well as funny) when you think about it. I laugh at the subject line of all my spams, there has never been one yet that has made me open it, much less buy from them!

I get a lot of SPAM and scam e-mails. It is just so annoying to try to sort through them all, at the moment I have over 10,000 e-mails in my inbox because I have not been able to keep up with deleting the SPAM. It makes me want to just scream and erase everything older than an hour old, but there are a lot of e-mails in there I need to keep and have to figure out sorting out of the SPAM. I have to agree that there are a lot of them that are very sneaky in their efforts to trick people into believing them. I have thought many times that the people that create these SPAM e-mails would be much better off doing something more constructive with their time.

I totally agree with you. How dumb do they think we really are? I would not do business with someone who would employ those kind of tactics to get what they want out of me. Again, I am not as dumb as they hope I would be.