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The one that gets me is the "Nigerian" scam.
You wouldn't believe the number of, mostly elderly
people, who fall for this perposterous diddle.

I honestly can't believe anyone makes enough from it to keep at it. I figure if someone is sufficiently anti-spam to have filters then they won't be interested in anything I'm sending in the way of sales pitch. In fact, for me it's just the opposite. I detest spam and simply refuse to open or read anything, let alone actually buy something, from someone who sends the trash mail.

I think the last thing you want to do is respond by clicking "remove me from your mail list" box! That just tells them the address is real and someone pays attention, which means your address gets moved from the cheapo list to the more expensive list of 'qualified' addresses. And heaven forbid if you ever buy something from one of them.

My late father-in-law was an easy mark for telephone marketers. I was convinced they maintain a list of these poor suckers and sell it to others in the industry. His phone was constantly ringing and he never said no. It took us a year to dispose of all the stuff he had stored in his garage that he had bought over the 40 years he was in that house. It reminded me of the Bloom County series years ago when Opus got hooked on the HSN and bought 10,000 tomato peelers! I miss Bloom County, but that's for another thread!

re: the "Nigerian" scam

I worked for me! I'm waiting for my check to arrive any day now. It's been almost six months, but you know how slow the mail is from those foreign countries. </s>

Crap! You mean I won't be getting that $15,000,000 from the Nigerian widow? I feel so... so... used...