I came back from vacation (my honeymoon) today, and I found I only had two phone messages, both of which were only hang-ups with no actual message. What I lacked in auditory messages, though, I more than made up for in e-mails. Specifically, I had way too many junk e-mails. I did the math and added up the numbers to find that I received 160 e-mails in the one week I was gone, while only 48 of those e-mails were of any actual importance to me (and I’m using importance as a broad term here).
Of course I can take solace in the fact that even this seemingly large number is nothing when compared to the endless deluge of e-mails received by Editor Mathias Baden in even a single day. That man gets more junk e-mail than I’ve ever seen in my life.


But without all those junk...
Back to page topBut without all those junk e-mails, I would never repeatedly win the lotteries of various countries or receive any "Dear Sweetest" letters begging for help with moving money into American bank accounts.
Just today, I was offered 20 percent of $45 million U.S. if I just use my bank account as a vehicle for exchange from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mr. Richard Laubsheri assures me, "After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr Smith B. Andrew, a foreigner, and a miner at a Gold Company, a geologist by profession and died since 2000. No other person knows this account or anything concerning it, the account has no beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the company does not know anything about this account ..."
I am so honored to be chosen (insert strong sarcasm here). I can't believe that people actually fall for this and lose their life savings "helping" people.
I can sympathies i manage...
Back to page topI can sympathies i manage over a dozen pop accounts all of which get sorted in outlook to their own inbox i'm receiving hundreds a week in junk and have seen them all. When i went on vacation to greece as i do each year for about a month i came home to find that when i set outlook to receive new emails there were a few thousand in the inbox. I try and take my laptop now on vacation to download emails on a regular basis last time i was away i was on a Royal Caribbean thankfully they had internet access. Occasionally i'll respond to emails like this taking up the time of the scamers and hoping i saved someone from dealing with them and just for kicks to see what they say when you respond. Whats sad is the real people who've sent them money thousands upon thousands from all over the world. Search youtube for nigerian scam and you'll see them being arrested over there but that does little to stop the emails.