Hints for spammers and phishers.

Okay, like everyone else, I hate spam. Yet, I feel compelled to share a piece of information with the rampant spammers.

I get spam everyday. It is easy to identify most of the spam - it is the stuff that is trying to get me to enlarge my penis, order sedatives, mood enhancers or drugs to help my penis (can someone please tell them I do *not* have a penis? and it certainly doesn't need ). But, even before I look at the content, I can spot the spam -- it is woefully mis-spelled. Now, I know they purportedly do some of the typos in order to confuse the spam-guard software. However, I am pretty sure that any half-way decent spam blocker will know that Viaggra or Viaxgra is just as spammy as Viagra.

Then, there are the phishers. They are sending emails that try to get you to disclose your personal information by pretending to be big reputable companies needing "updates". But, the emails are poorly written and laden with grammatical and spelling errors. Do they really want you to think that no one at eBay or Paypal takes any time to proofread?

So, spammers and phishers... take note. If you want to sell, con or fool more people... Run a spell-check.