4425 – That’s the number

Keeping you up to date on my monthly spam progress! We saw a large increase in the middle of the month. A huge surge. For a while we were averaging well over 175 spam messages a day. It’s really kind of silly and annoying. I wonder who are the “learning challenged” people that are making this industry thrive?

On a related note, I read something the other day. It seems that people started sending spam as jpgs, then as pdfs, then as zipped files… the latest – mp3! That’s right, you can get spam that have to LISTEN to while the try to sell you something. I can just hear it…. “Hey overweight old lady living at the end of a dirt road using AOL …. does this sound like you? If you send me your bank account information, for just a small fee of $2.99 a second you will be able to watch home shopping network with a furby wearing lingerie!”

Seriously, who buys stuff from spam?