In the last couple years, I’ve become accustomed to deleting on the order of 100+ SPAM emails a day from my work account. So far, I’ve been lucky that my personal accounts haven’t yet be attacked. It’s a horrible pain in the ass. But somehow, I’ve really gotten used to coming in to work every day and deleting that many emails. I’m sure I’ve missed a couple emails here and there that have been mixed in with my daily SPAM. I’m still constantly amazed that such a large number of idiots gets on the internet every day. I mean, there has to be someone following through with these SPAM scams, otherwise they wouldn’t bother. But they do. And idiots are paying $300 for their non-accredited “university” diplomas all the time. Ridiculous. Or I guess now it’s the viagra that’s selling so much. That’s really the best target of all so far. Only so many people want a fake diploma. But I’m sure there’s a ton of dudes out there that are embarassed by their impotence and don’t want to bother going to a doctor. To those people I say, GO TO FUCKING MEXICO AND BUY IT THERE! Stop frequenting these stupid spammers, because they’re probably just going to steal your identity and spend the weekend in Tijuana.

Luckily for me, my company recently started using a decent spam filter. This thing is awesome. I went from getting 100 pieces of SPAM a day to getting 1 or 2, along with a daily summary of the last day’s spam. Now what’s interesting about this is that generally I get around 100 pieces of spam per day, but on Sundays, I get lots more; last Sunday I received 1400 pieces of spam. What’s the point of this? Am I supposed to come in to work on Monday, thinking “Gee, I really don’t feel like working today, maybe I should follow this link to HOT MILFs that are ready for ME!” It seems to me that it would make more sense to send out a ton of spam on friday afternoons, when people are trying to find ways to distract themselves. Maybe this is why I don’t work in advertising or marketing.

My real point is that today marks an extra special spam day for me. Today I received my first spam message on Friendster. My new “friend” annie sent me this message:

===begin msg====
Hey, nice to meet u. Just want to ask you to join my group below and share our comments.

My Group: http://lovestation.neatvibe.com
===end msg====

I almost fell for this one. Right. Annie, the single 18 year-old from Malaysia. Of course! How could I have forgotten about her? I should definitely join her group so we can “share our comments”. I enjoy conversing with people that use ‘u’ instead of ‘you’. I’ll get right on that.

Note: if this post seems a bit off, my Dayquil may finally be taking effect. Damn this cough.