Scams.

Everyone's got one. Could be yours, could be someone else's. Whatever. Doesn't matter. Everybody's scammed someone else at one point or another (and yes, boasting is often a form of scamming).E-mail scammers are the most relentless bastards in existence. They will try every last trick in the book, and quite a few that aren't, to get your e-mail; and not just to send you e-cards. They sell your e-mail addy to every company they can get their filthy paws on, making oodles of money, and then all those companies do the same thing, and pretty soon (like some of my previous e-mails that have now been shut down as a result) you're getting hundreds of e-mails a day about this product or that service or joining this club or supporting this charity. It's all one big, fat fucking scamring, and it pisses me off. Even in one of my current e-mails, I'm getting a couple dozen a day; today, for example, I got twenty-five - count them, TWENTY-FIVE junk mails. My mother gets about five hundred in a couple of hers - apiece, not combined. And why? For the off-chance that one of the idiots out there might actually respond?The trouble is that they do; every day, tens (if not hundreds) of millions of people all over the world reply to these scams thinking that they're signing up for a couple of supposedly 'free' services or buying a few products for '85% off the cover price' in the hopes that they'll get their 'free' Playstation 3 or X-Box. In reality, not only are they now buying something they don't need and getting a service that they no longer want, they've also payed out ten bucks for a product they never even got. This is called 'network scamming'. You supposedly win something only to pay out money to a couple of different corporations, and all three parties sell your information to numerous other companies - and voila, the whole process starts all over again.Like I said, it pisses me off; if people would use their heads, I wouldn't be getting all these fucking e-mails. And the pop-ups are just as bad (if not worse), because just clicking on one of them opens up several network scamming rings and publishes your IP addy, your e-mail, and any other information you've been stupid enough to publish on the internet. I understand companies need to get money to keep going, but this is ridiculous. Whatever happened to so-called 'honest marketing'? You know, the kind where you sell a glass of lemonade for ten cents? Or mow a lawn and get ten bucks? That's sales. What network scammers do is fraud. Plain and simple.