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“. . .the sheer volume of spam grows exponentially every year, and so, it would appear, do the sophisticated methods used to send it. Nearly two million e-mails are dispatched every second, a hundred and seventy-one billion messages a day. …Spam’s growth has been metastatic, both in raw numbers and as a percentage of all mail. In 2001, spam accounted for about five per cent of the traffic on the Internet; by 2004, that figure had risen to more than seventy per cent. This year, in some regions, it has edged above ninety per cent—more than a hundred billion unsolicited messages clogging the arterial passages of the world’s computer networks every day.” Damn Spam: Losing the war on junk mail.

I suppose I’m lucky: my spam blocker usually stops the penile enlargement ads, so all I get are these congratulations for winning lotteries I never joined, and letters from alleged deposed dictators offering to share their loot if I’m stupid enough to give them my bank details. A lot of well-to-do older Pinoys are actually taken in by these scams (Shouldn’t our constant exposure to phony get-rich-quick schemes work as a sort of homeopathy and make us scam-proof by now?). I think it’s a mixture of gullibility, greed, wanting something for nothing and losing everything in the process. The real visionaries are the Monty Python guys, because they wrote a song about spam back when it was all canned.