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Spam Reality Checklist
Spam can be oh-so enticing. When an e-mail missive promising
to fulfill your deepest fantasies lands in your mailbox, even the most
hardheaded can succumb to the dreamy possibilities. Tempted as you may be, you
must be strong. Here's a reality checklist to steel you against the spammers'
wily ways:
- There's no potentate in Nigeria desperate to deposit millions into your bank
account. In fact, no stranger in any country will ever contact you out of the
blue and make you wealthy.
- It may, in fact, be financially beneficial to refinance your home. Fortunately,
there are dozens of banks and mortgage brokers in your neighborhood eager to
take your business.
- Your family doctor would be happy to give you a prescription for whatever
medication you want. If she won't, then you shouldn't be taking it anyway.
- Though a college degree will almost certainly help advance your career, a fake
diploma printed on some guy's inkjet printer isn't going to be much help.
- No college coed is anxious to meet you or to show you her pictures. After all,
they weren't that interested when you were in college; why would they be so
interested now?
- There's probably nothing wrong with you, and even if there is, no pill, potion,
or supplement hawked via spam is going to fix it.
- Though Bill Gates is indeed very rich, he isn't going pay you $$$ for forwarding
junk chain letters onto your friends. - Doug
- No bank needs you to go to their website and give them your debit card
information because they "lost" it. (This is especially true if you never had an
account there in the first place.) - Chris
- You aren't going to be sent on a free trip to Bermuda, or anywhere else
for that matter. - Andrew
- There are, in fact, legitimate ways to make money working from home, many of
which may employ your computer. But these opportunities generally require some
individual work and ingenuity, and are not being bulk emailed at random. - Lewis
- No pill will increase your endowment by 4 inches. If such a pill did exist, you
would have heard about it already, in fact everyone you know would be taking it
already. - Daniel
- Your email-provider is NOT going on holiday and they don't need you to run the
attached program in order to be able to keep getting your mail. - The Snake
- No matter how many people you forward an email to or what keys you hit, you will
never see a cool or funny image show up on your screen. Email just doesn't work
like that. - kenny g
- No one will ever send you a digital camera or laptop or anything else of value
just to "try it out." - Dan
This list is taken from How to Do Everything to Fight Spam,
Viruses, Pop-Ups, and Spyware, the book that teaches how to keep your email
address safe from spammers, avoid viruses and spyware, and how to block pop-ups
once and for all.
Read an excerpt from Ken Feinstein's book, How to Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups, and Spyware |
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