Why do spammers ...

[Karen]

... think I am single and in need of a date? I am happily married, and have been for many years!

It used to be all ads for "e.d." drugs, which also bemused me, as I am female, and don't have that body part. But the tide has definitely shifted to dating ads - how about for you?

[pomtzu]

I've noticed that change here too. I've also seen an increase in the loan and credit card ads too. And of course - the low-life Nigerian money scams will never end.

[Karen]

Oh, and why do they think I have diabetes? Don't need to "cure" a condition I don't have, thanks, no matter how "easy" the trick!

[Freedom]

I use Yahoo for email, so 99% oif spam is caught in got into a separate 'spam' folder. I check quickly and then delete.

One day about 2 months back I opened on. Scrolled down to the bottom and . . . I was able to UNSUBSCRIBE! Took a look at some others, ditto. Within 3 days my spam mail was down to viagra stuff (no unsubscribe on those).

[Karen]

Trust me, Sandie, 99% of my spam gets filtered as well. It's just that sometimes they come up with new schemes that it takes a while for the filters to catch on to.

As my email addresses have been online for so many years, I am on every spambot's list, I am sure. The other one I have been getting a ton of lately is "You could be on Deal or No Deal with Howie Mandell" - rearrange that headline however you want, I have gotten it. I never watch the show, maybe saw a few seconds of it once, and now every day I get a few of those! Why that one game show out of the myriad list of 'em, I have no idea, but it's the new "in" thing with spammers, I have found!

When you "unsubscribe," you are actually confirming to someone, somewhere that your email address works. So you'll get on more lists. I never "unsubscribe" from anything I didn't subscribe to in the first place. And for most "subscribe" things, I use a different email address as well!

[Jessika]

When you "unsubscribe," you are actually confirming to someone, somewhere that your email address works. So you'll get on more lists. I never "unsubscribe" from anything I didn't subscribe to in the first place. And for most "subscribe" things, I use a different email address as well!

I don't know about that... like Freedom, I went through a lot of mine one day and "unsubscribed" from many, and my spam emails decreased exponentially. I've heard that before (that it's just confirming your email address), but what have you got to lose? You're already getting spammed by them lol