Is it just my inbox?

Oct 2, 2007 13:27 GMT  ·  By

You know spam, it hits your inbox daily. Drugs, porn, shares, whatever, they're all the same, but, sometimes, I'm fascinated when I get something different! I wanted to write about this yesterday, but I had some hotter material to write about. Every weekend I venture inside my bulk folder and see what kind of spam I got. I can't help it - I'm curious, I want to see what these guys come up with. And I'm not talking about the popular spam here, I'm referring to the weird spam that researchers name "other" in their charts.

The e-mail address I'm talking about is my first one ever and it gets spam in huge quantities. Luckily, it's filtered. So, here are some of the weirdest spam messages I got. Now, you know those messages advertising drugs? Yeah, the ones about Cialis and Viagra and all that. Well, I got plenty of those, nothing special, till now. Thing is a few of those that I got didn't have any link. What the hell? How am I supposed to get scammed if the message won't take me anywhere? Well, not that I would complain or anything, but this is certainly something I've never seen before. This seemed really weird to me as spam is pretty much pointless if you don't get redirected.

I didn't bother to check all the drug related messages in my bulk folder, but I found at least 3 like this one, before deleting them all. I don't know what happened, but if all spam messages were like those, then we'd be soon out of problems!

However, what I did was just a minor experiment, and I can afford doing this, since I have great protection on my machine and have quite a bit of knowledge regarding spam. You should not do the same - when you get spam, just ignore it, or even better, delete it! Nothing good will ever come out of it!