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My first job of the day when reaching what I am pleased to call my office, is to post this blog.
My next job is to take a look at the overnight emails. Many these days are junk and they quickly get deleted without being read. I get advertisements for Viagra pills, loans, all sorts of dodgy money-saving offers, penis enlargements, offers to act as an intermediary for a money fraud (but only if I give details of my own bank account) and, latterly for some unknown reason, breast enhancements.
On a daily basis I get requests to visit the websites of various supermarkets and mail order firms I have dealt with in the past, as well as spurious invitations to join certain social network sites. All go in the bin and get deleted instantly. They are a wretched nuisance.
One might ask how these people get our email addresses. Some, like the supermarkets and mail order companies, have to have them so that they can keep us uptodate with the progress of our orders. One hopes that they observe the protocols and do not sell our details on, though some undoubtedly do.
Yet other outfits very cleverly send out emails designed to collect email addresses. I frequently get, for example, pleas from folk with some heart-rending story that asks me to copy the message and pass it on to a dozen others. Behind the scenes, there are apparently computers that will search out such messages and collect the email addresses being used.
There are endless ways in which the unscrupulous will collect email addresses and put them to good use, by either sending out the sort of junk mail I get every morning or by selling them so that someone else can.
There seems little that one can do about junk emails, even though most of the internet providers have taken steps to reduce their number. I haven’t recently, for instance, been asked by the widow of some African bank whose husband salted away $20 millions somewhere, for help in laundering it in return for 25%. And my own internet provider cleverly pops emails about Viagra and the other well-known nonsenses into a ‘Junk’ folder that I can empty every now and again without having the bother of reading any of it.
Nonetheless, internet junk mail is as much of a nuisance as the stuff we get through our letterbox every morning, moreso these days after Royal Mail agreed to start delivering it. But, as I said before, there is little we can do about it.
On the other hand if anyone out there wants to have a contact who will sell them Viagra tablets, penis enlargements (the mind boggles) and breast enhancements (surely not a DIY job?) or help a widow get illegal money out of an African bank ... just send me an email!
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My first job of the day when reaching what I am pleased to call my office, is to post this blog.
My next job is to take a look at the overnight emails. Many these days are junk and they quickly get deleted without being read. I get advertisements for Viagra pills, loans, all sorts of dodgy money-saving offers, penis enlargements, offers to act as an intermediary for a money fraud (but only if I give details of my own bank account) and, latterly for some unknown reason, breast enhancements.
On a daily basis I get requests to visit the websites of various supermarkets and mail order firms I have dealt with in the past, as well as spurious invitations to join certain social network sites. All go in the bin and get deleted instantly. They are a wretched nuisance.
One might ask how these people get our email addresses. Some, like the supermarkets and mail order companies, have to have them so that they can keep us uptodate with the progress of our orders. One hopes that they observe the protocols and do not sell our details on, though some undoubtedly do.
Yet other outfits very cleverly send out emails designed to collect email addresses. I frequently get, for example, pleas from folk with some heart-rending story that asks me to copy the message and pass it on to a dozen others. Behind the scenes, there are apparently computers that will search out such messages and collect the email addresses being used.
There are endless ways in which the unscrupulous will collect email addresses and put them to good use, by either sending out the sort of junk mail I get every morning or by selling them so that someone else can.
There seems little that one can do about junk emails, even though most of the internet providers have taken steps to reduce their number. I haven’t recently, for instance, been asked by the widow of some African bank whose husband salted away $20 millions somewhere, for help in laundering it in return for 25%. And my own internet provider cleverly pops emails about Viagra and the other well-known nonsenses into a ‘Junk’ folder that I can empty every now and again without having the bother of reading any of it.
Nonetheless, internet junk mail is as much of a nuisance as the stuff we get through our letterbox every morning, moreso these days after Royal Mail agreed to start delivering it. But, as I said before, there is little we can do about it.
On the other hand if anyone out there wants to have a contact who will sell them Viagra tablets, penis enlargements (the mind boggles) and breast enhancements (surely not a DIY job?) or help a widow get illegal money out of an African bank ... just send me an email!
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