Thursday, October 26, 2006

Spam

My company does a good job of blocking spam messages in my e-mail. There are hundreds per day that end up in our Junk Mail boxes that we sift through on a regular basis. What I'm confused about is who is getting a message like this one:

You can see you are getting older: gray hair, wrinkles on your forehead, glasses for reading, worse hearing and NO – the worst thing – Erectile Dysfunction.Maybe your doctor can help you with all these problems but we are sure that our Soft Viagra tabs can help you with the last problem.

and thinking “Wow, this is a great company! I should send them my money!”???
How are these messages really an effective way of advertising? Why are they still coming in droves?

10 comments:

Viki said...

They annoy all of us, but think about it - they're free to send out, it can't take too much time to put them together & send them, so if a company makes any money at all, they're worth it to that company.

Megs said...

That is one of the craziest messages ever… funny thing is… I got the same SPAM message today!!

Gtemp said...

All they do is pay another company to get all their email addresses that people submit to them for things such as mail in rebates or taking online surveys to get coupons. Then they just keep sending things out to the entire group.

Annoying people but brilliant and inexpensive way for free advertisement!

Anonymous said...

It is SOOOOO tempting to cut and paste that to an email from me to you......

Finlands finest said...

I don't know anyone who would buy that product....Then again, you are my first friend to admit to reading spam....

Anonymous said...

You have Erectile Dysfunction?!?!

Wow! You think you know someone....

Andy Martini
Flame-proof and Limousine Ready, Baby!!!

Mamma Sarah said...

Andy Martini stole my comment... I thought your sex life was wonderful. Maybe that's why the toy party was so much fun! :-)

Megs said...

Karen can't really say anything interestinga bout the fun party since she bought the MOST BORING TOY ever!!!!

Mamma Sarah said...

LOL!

Martha said...

And what was the most boring toy ever? I'm oddly intrigued....