Spam

I wonder have anyone among us open our mailbox early in the morning and gleefully find that there are a few emails that is waiting for us? The feeling of euphoria will fade as fast as it came the time when I read the title of the emails. Receiving spam in my context is really very exhausting. As much as I hate being forwarded with junk mails, I have in my lifetime, received more than a fair share of it. Why is that so? Perhaps I know many people that actually bothers to send me forwarded mails? Some are worth a read and a laugh after but most are junk mails that is either totally inappropriate or warrants getting pissed at!

Among the more interesting title or subject of the email is "enhance your sexual prowness with XXX product", " Guaranteed Enlargement for your Organ". "Cheap Viagras and Other enhancements", "want to have a date with Celebrity So and So?". Most are total crap and immediate deletion is the appropriate response and yeah, to even think that I need things like this! I wonder if anyone actually fall for craps like this? Is there even a remote possibility that your organ can be "enlarged" by taking medications? Hmm, I reckon the biggest buyers would be males with rediculously low self esteem. Maybe there are loads of gullible people around, people that would try anything in order to feel better about themselves.

Most noticebly of late is the Nigerian Black Money scam, I mean, do anyone honestly think that being as poor a country as it is, they have so much money stashed somewhere to transfer out of their country? and even if all these is real, by any chance, why would they solicit people via emails, et tu, the people that they don't know. I read with amusement that a local university Professor was one such victim, the academician purportedly lost 600k in a scam. Being a learned person doesn't actually make you less greedy eh? I wonder what insights and "enlightenment" an esteemed member of the academic can impart to the students? I really wonder!

Something that doesn't come into this category of spam is the more sedate and heart tugging forwarded emails, sort of an electronic counterpart of chain letters. Emails like this are usually based on some one that is arguably sick or in the verge of dying unless someone comes up with a sh*t load of money, or some money is being donated every time the article is opened and forwarded. Or those that gives a very nice and lovey dovey article about love, relationship and the human spirits and ends up with a request to forward to as many people as possible in order to enjoy the blessing(s), some even have condition attached to it:-

send to 5 people u have minimal blessing
send to 10 to 20, u have moderate blessing,
send to 30 and above, u'll have good blessing,
Up to 50, your lucky day starts today! so and so forth!

What I cannot comprehend is that if we do forward this "spam" to other people as well as friends, do the blessing neccesarily comes back to us? Nay, I don't actually think so.

I think emails like this tend to be more often then not, practical jokes started by people who have nothing better to do, people like me sitting around waiting for clients to come. Hmm, Perhaps I should start my chain mails as well? I wonder what the topic will be? Forward this email or woe and bad luck will fall upon you and your family?