If I get one more email that promises to make my girlfriend happier (you know the ones) I am going to throw something. By the time I finish typing this sentence, I’m sure there will be at least one new email for an anti-impotence drug sitting in my junk mail folder. Is there anyone that actually orders little blue pills after receiving emails like this?

“Oh Martha, look at the little note I got in that fancy internet box,” says Walter with a smile. “Says here I can please you better.”

“Oh, Walter,” giggles Martha, “Where do we stick our credit card in the internet machine?”

Seriously. Why do these spammers even bother? I don’t get it. Don’t these people have anything better to do with their time?

Besides the erectile dysfunction drugs and other ‘enhancement’ products I get emails for everyday, there are also tons of nice girls that want to chat with me. How lovely.

These emails mostly go straight to my junk folder, but then there are the other emails. The ones from scam artists.

The people that have fathers wrongly imprisoned and need you, their trusted friend, to accept a payment of 3 million dollars in your US bank account, blah blah blah.

There are other con artists about as well, some wanting you to send them money, some disguised as PayPal emails, and so on and so forth.

(If you ever get an email from ‘PayPal’ that doesn’t address you by name, or says your account has been suspended, or something else along those lines - NEVER take it as the truth. PayPal will always call you by name, never ‘PayPal customer’ or anything else. And they would call you about anything of a serious nature. If you have an email that looks suspicious, forward it to spoof@paypal.com and the real PayPal people will tell you if it’s bogus or not.)

Anyway, what inspired me to write this post was an email I received this morning.

It is a very brief message from someone asking some questions about how I accept payment from people located outside of the US, and where my offices are located. My first reaction was - sounds like a scam.

Isn’t that terrible? I’m preprogrammed to put everything under a microscope and analyze the heck out of it before I respond.

This could be a scam, but it might be legit. Who knows? I emailed him back and answered his questions concisely. Mind you, I Googled him first.

Jeeez…is everyone else this skeptical?

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