My Ever-Growing Spam Folder

Even though I am very careful not to post my email address publicly, each and every day I get tens to hundreds of spam messages. Most of it (probably more than 90%) is about Viagra, Cialis and other penis pills.

The titles of those emails usually range from funny to silly to stupid. It looks like spammers are coming up with ways to bypass spam filters. One of the stupidest and most detectable ways spammers use to try to fool email filters is using misspellings of the main keywords in their message. For example, I get tons of emails with titles like: Buy Viagara and Cialias, Cheaap Viaqra, Che@pest Viaggra, etc.

Only less than 1% of the spam gets through the filters into my inbox and the rest gets automatically junked.

I am still very amazed that some (or many) people are ignorant and naive enough to click on the links they get through spammy emails and actually buy whatever the spammer is selling. So, the question now is: who is more stupid, and whose fault is it, spammers or those who fall for it and pay the spammers (by buying the products promoted in spam emails)?