Technology has certainly changed the way we communicate with one another (just ask the USPS), so it should come as no surprise that yesterday’s unsolicited junk mail is today’s spam email. Fortunately a lot of these emails never see the light of day thanks to my spam filter, but occasionally some messages slip through.
No matter how many times that poor soul from Nigeria sends the message regarding a large sum of money, I’m still not biting. Nor will I be giving my username and password to validate my corporate email address to a sender I’ve never heard of. I’m not interested in getting cheap pharmaceuticals even if you spell *v_I_a_G_r_a* in that oh-so-clever spam-filter-dodging way. Sorry, but I won’t be sending you my account number because my Bank of the West account is not overdrawn. How do I know this? Because I DON’T have a Bank of the West account. And, no, I won’t be forwarding the Bill Gates Microsoft chain email so I can get some money, even if your close friend is a lawyer and says it’s legit.
The amount of spam that fills our inboxes is proof of one thing: SOMEONE is actually responding to and forwarding these emails giving the spammers a return on their investment. Not only have innocent (but gullible) individuals lost their money, privacy or identity to greedy spammers, but they may even end up with a computer virus that attacks and destroys their computers. So, please don’t take it personally if I don’t read and push through that email forward that you found so interesting.