You know, I thought they were only myth...

[kittyblue]

I've always heard about the Nigerian prince scams and whatnot, but I had figured they were replaced by Viagra spam with badly spelled half-sentences and weird characters thrown in

Comments

[songblaze]

Ha, oh no, I seem to average one every two months. Your spam filter may just be catching most of yours so you don't see them.

[kittyblue]

True, my spam filter is pretty darn good. Though I do skim through what's in there before I empty it just-in-case and it's usually the b1gg3r p3nis and mail-order bride ads.

[octaveleap]

Have you heard of spam-baiting? Apparently some people with no time on their hands like to respond to these scams and start a long correspondence - the goal being to get the scammer to send them a handwritten letter. Here is a blog posted by my favorite spam-baiter.