I don't think I'll ever figure out the real motivations behind SPAM.
While theoretically it makes sense to bombard everyone in the world every day of their natural and unnatural lives with Viagra and Cialis messages until one day they wake up to find they can't get it up anymore...in practice I would have to imagine that it becomes a tad costly over a long period of time.
Viagra aside, I seem to find my SPAM quota follows weird patterns of similarity.
January seemed to be Russian month (I'm assuming the messages were for Viagra and Cialis, but I couldn't tell you because they were in Russian)
February was Chinese language time
March language 'o the month was English and apparently every young, sexy married woman in Norwalk and greater Fairfield County had a husband who was permanently away on business (and apparently had a Web Cam to boot)
April has suddenly become "hot stock tip" month - penny stocks are back in vogue as e-mail after e-mail tries to get me to invest my hard-earned pennies (which is all that remains after the market meltdown of 2000) in what will no doubt be no-hope investments. Perhaps the traders in question are the husbands of the wives in March's wave of Desperate Housewives. Who knows.
Anyway, there's no end in sight except to look forward to the next big thing in May. Until then, let us all pray for the donotcall.gov equivalent for e-mail.
jJ
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