Spam makes me laugh
Guess what…today I got an email telling me that I’ve qualified for a free John Deere tractor lawn mower. No worries that my lawn is the probably the size of the tractor and we pay someone to maintain it anyway. The link to sign up for my prize (participation required) was going to take me to mankeep.info (whose WHOIS information did not jive with the information given in the email. Surprise, surprise.).
This was in my spam folder following the email filled with nonsense sentences and nary a link to be found.
I understand that spam is unsolicited email. But is an email from a legitimate company with whom I’m not interested in doing business really the same as garbage email messages (whose purpose must be to just stuff an inbox?) or phishing for personal information?