Do you trust spam emails?
By slyvixen42
@slyvixen42 (926)
United States
June 9, 2008 12:45am CST
I'm a hopeful person and sometimes I click on the spam I get in my inbox, but most of the time I delete it without a second thought. I think most spam is from people who just want to swindle you out of your money. Do you trust spam or are you a skeptic like me?
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10 responses
@uautkarsh (414)
• India
9 Jun 08
Never trust spam mails, i usually do not open them because now there are methods to get hacked by just opening mails!
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@uautkarsh (414)
• India
9 Jun 08
really, does he have his ID in mylot, or anyother ID?
I wanna talk to him
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@slyvixen42 (926)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I gues I need to stop opening them, huh? My brother works with internet security and knows about all that stuff.
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@jickyeung (201)
• Hong Kong
9 Jun 08
No, don't trust spams. There are mainly two kinds of spam. One give you virus, one cheat you money. There isn't valuable spam in the world. When you see a spam, just delete it immediately, don't waste any time on reading it.
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@slyvixen42 (926)
• United States
9 Jun 08
Yeah, I know I shouldn't open them. I just get so curious. We all know what curiousity did to the cat.
@slyvixen42 (926)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I'm just hoping that people aren't as cruel and twisted as they seem to be and that someone might send me something out of the kindness of their heart. I guess I'm just fooling myself.
@cellophane (636)
• New Zealand
9 Jun 08
I always delete spam straight away without opening it. I don't want to run the risk of getting a virus from opening a spam mail, and the contents are useless anyway.
@antony2best (583)
• India
9 Jun 08
i know that they carry viruses therefore i don'read those mail.
i don't trust them at all
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@Zergonipal (807)
• Poland
9 Jun 08
You should never trust spam mails (only if you know that it is from someone you really know you should open it). There's a lot of viruses that travels via spam.
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@slyvixen42 (926)
• United States
9 Jun 08
That's true. I rarely think about viruses. I guess I should huh? People can be so malicious sometimes.
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
9 Jun 08
There are cases that legitimate mail are accidentally moved to spam folder, sometimes it is cause by filters and sometimes from sites we joined in. It is imperative that you have a sufficient malware protection on guard and you know how to handle this things if you would ever open this spam folder. I have to admit there are times too that I check my spam folder to ensure that they are really all just spam.
@slyvixen42 (926)
• United States
9 Jun 08
Yeah, I hear ya. I have Yahoo! mail and emails that aren't spam always get moved to the spam folder. I have to sheck it every day to make sure I don't miss an important email.
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@dio123 (1788)
• India
16 Jun 08
no and never also my advice to you and everyone Delete spam mails from your inbox immediately without opening it, it may contain some software or better say spyware which can take confidential or important information from your pc or laptop thus I always prefer to delete all spam mails without opening, though it consume a lot of my time daily but I have no other solution to it currently, If you guys have any solution to stop those spam mails please do suggest me also
thanks
@Anticipator (45)
• Estonia
9 Jun 08
It's really rare for spam to be useful, so my advice is to avoid it.
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@peterliu (118)
• Hong Kong
16 Jun 08
Sometimes they just want you to do them a favor. For example: do a survey. Or even join mylot and become their referral.
Some of them are useful. Because some of them spammer know who you are. They know what you want and like, then they send such messages to you.
I believe that there are opportunities in the spam box of my gmail. So I read them occasionally.
