You mean People Buy This Stuff?!?

If you've got an email account or two, you've been bombarded by SPAM. No question about it. And there's a good chance that in recent months, you've been slammed a few times (if not more) by one particular SPAM, touting...

August 6, 2003

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If you've got an email account or two, you've been bombarded by SPAM. No question about it. And there's a good chance that in recent months, you've been slammed a few times (if not more) by one particular SPAM, touting a product that will enlarge a certain...ahem...part of the male body.

It's a sure fire bet that everyone who gets this annoying email promptly relegates it to their trash bin, right? Right?

Wrong.

This may come as a shock, but there's a large number of people replying to this type of email, and ORDERING the pills that it offers -- despite the fact that there is no real company information, let alone any standard security encryption for protecting their credit card information.

Read more about this at Wired.

But bottom line, this is probably proof positive that the SPAM business is not going to go out of business anytime soon.

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