Neat trick but still spam

Like any businessman who spends time using email I loathe spam and alongside the phishing scams, 419 banking bonanzas from Africa and various priapic therapies I get just as annoyed with genuine - but unsolicited - sales pitches.

One that did make me smile though was an email from some sign writing company that had gone to the trouble of designing an applet that wrote the Morgan PR web address across the boot of a car, while the website itself (visited via a browser rather than click on the email and reveal my curiosity!) allowed you to write anything you fancied - see above!

So clever yes, but unsolicited and junked accordingly.

Spam central!

I caught up on some IT maintenance today, little jobs that had been niggling in the background but never quite annoying enough to warrant attention.

For instance, my ‘enquiries at Morgan PR’ email was something that had never been set up in anything more than theory and I was keen to add it to Outlook. For instance I knew it was the email address on the all new West Berkshire Business Club website, so I should be checking it.

Deluge! Little did I know that whilst I had not been using it, it was a natural hub for hundreds and hundreds of spam emails to congregate in the hope I had taken leave of my senses and wanted to buy their variety of deceit! Honestly!

To be honest everyone of them was caught by Outlook as they bombarded my inbox so it was more the surprise than any real inconvenience. But still… how much Spam?