What spam messages do you usually get?

@jammed (153)
Philippines
April 6, 2007 8:07am CST
My primary e-mail add is on Yahoo! Mail, this means, I should have a maximum tolerance for spam, else, I'd get irritated all the time. Anyway, what spam messages do you usually get? Mine usually are about winning a lottery, a lost wealth and they want other people to claim for it - the famous was the Nigerian scam I think, some chain messages from friends (yeah, this is a form of spam), beauty products, etc.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
6 Apr 07
I used to get a lot of spam mail, but not lately. At least not in my primary email addresses. I don't use those with anything that I do on the net. I have a few gmail accounts that I use if I register in any sites and I do get quite a lot of spam messages there, but I don't even notice what they are about.. I look generally trough the messages and keep the ones that are from someone or some place that I know and the rest is deleted immediately. As for the messages in the spam folder I don't even read them or look at what they are about I just select all and delete. Occasionally I find a few that passed trough my filters but I don't usually open them. The same thing with chain messages.. I do tend to get some from friends even though I asked them not to... I delete them immediately as well. Sometimes I keep some from beauty products but only the ones that are send form sites that I registered in. Some of them send free samples and I don't mind them. Spam annoys me to no end. I already get enough email messages each day from all my groups and things that I actually want to receive, I don't really want to have to deal with deleting lots of garbage as well. But I solved that with having different emails to different things. If I register somewhere with an email address and them right after that I start receiving lots of spam, then I know it came from that site, and I just don't use that email again:) I have one just for personal stuff and family. ALmost never receive any spam there. I have another for my graphics groups that doesn't really get spam , at least not to be noticeable. I have one for myLot that seems fine too. ANd then I have anoter with the sites that I registered that I don't know for sure if I should trust or not. When I"m certain that a site is not sending me any spam, I change the email to the one where I have mylot, but if I"m not I keep it there. That email address is appropriately called "lixeira" which mean garbage hehe
@raveena (1353)
• India
6 Apr 07
I have lost track of it there are so many spam messages and on so many different topics that I do not even open it. I just check if the email id if it is not known to me I straight away delete it. Earlier I used to check even my bulk mails so that I do not miss out on any mail but get so many spam mails that I just delete it without even going through them.
• United States
6 Apr 07
mine have lessened since i put on a spam blocker,but.. i get adds for viagra,timeshares,products,a few that look like poetry of some kind,and some that are fully incomprehensable. a friend of mine sends about 20 jokes a day.i feel bad 'cause he's a shut-in,but rrrrrrrr.
@RLH4871 (163)
• Singapore
6 Apr 07
My primary e-mail is also Yahoo mail. Spam messages received are normally for weight loss, lottery winner & the most frequent one is viagra and stuffs.