Spam - If I Want a Laugh, All I Have to Do is Open My Email Inbox Titled Spam

What's in Your Spam Inbox?

Kay Balbi
Managing the inbox

I love to read and write, and I get an awful lot of email these days. It is hard to keep up when I receive upwards of 100 emails or more every day. Then other days, the web river seems to run dry and all my friends have either failed to publish, or worse, their publishing company has failed to notify me, and all of a sudden, I feel all alone.

Is there no one communicating news, weird facts, television shows they have watched, what congress is doing with health care and with jobs? Earthquakes and volcanoes far enough away where I didn't feel it or don't know about it. I need it, I crave information. Please!

Checking Spam - where did my emails go?

C'mon people don't make me revert to reading spam!

In an effort to maintain my inbox and make sure I haven't accidentally missed some things, I recently went through my spam inbox and cleared out all the junk I don't read, have no intention of ever reading, or am even a bit frightened to open up.

This morning my AOL email software has again relegated certain emails into my spam folder. I check it to make sure no job offers have ended up there. Sadly, no job offers but I do have a free offer for $500 cash to pay my bills since I am unemployed - All I have to do is give them my bank account, my pin number, my address and my social security number - How about that - seems almost too good to be true huh?

I also get offers for the female version of Cialis - what do they know that I don't? I've even got an offer for a happy wife and a happy life. At times, I think I could use a wife -someone to keep track of all my stuff, and feed me dinner when I'm hungry. And it would definitely be good if she were happy wife - I almost think I should click that one, but I know it's a scam, nobody married to me could possibly be happy unless they are a blow up doll. Oh wait - I have received a discount for one of those too.

You know, if I wasn't already going to school for my MBA, I could go to Kaplan University, and I even have offers to help me pay - via scholarships - I think they might be looking for my vital information too - offering them my financial identity is so tempting but I think I will pass on that one today.

My favorite spam emails though are the ones offering to help make my bra happy. Who doesn't need a happy bra?

Of course, if I had some extra cash, I could buy candles, inkjet cartridges or prescription drugs from Canada too. All these choices, and no money, I just don't know what to do.

The good news is, I'm still getting free credit card offers. No job, no income but somebody wants to loan me money. Maybe that is why they call it spam!

Occasionally however, I will find a real email in there - like the one I got from an editor at one of the publishing houses I am working with. She wanted to ask me for pictures for an article I had done and told me she wanted to publish my work. That was a pretty good spam email, and I'm glad I opened that one!

Got any good spam in your email lately?

Published by Kay Balbi

"Life is a journey, not a destination. You only get one life-are you living it?" Freelance writer and business management consultant Kay Balbi has many passions and interests to share. She is an author, insp...  View profile

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  • Malina Debrie4/6/2010

    I hesitate to delete emails from my spam because like you, I have found important emails sent to spam. I always scan through the spam file before deleting.

  • Patricia Sicilia3/24/2010

    If I get one more Viagra ad! Geez. And how stupid do these Nigerians, et al. think we are!?

  • Tara Darity3/24/2010

    LOL great job!

  • Vincent Summers3/24/2010

    I learned something very surprising and most impressive - the INCREDIBLE number of Nigerians who have $24,000,000 and want to share it with me because of my amazing qualities. Such nice folks! I couldn't steal their money. I'm a complete stranger. They ought to be more careful with their money.

  • Tamara L. Waters3/23/2010

    I get a lot of job offers - one was to makes a gazillion bucks helping some guy move barrels of oil out of the Middle East. I probably should have pursued that one.

  • Anthony Ventre3/23/2010

    Good style and funny...

  • Janet Hunt3/22/2010

    LOL! So true! :-)

  • JerseyNana3/22/2010

    Just erectile drugs, but last time I looked, I didn't have a penis!

  • Sunshine Wilson3/22/2010

    Ha Ha :-)

  • Lynn Pritchett3/22/2010

    LOL! I'd rather open a can of spam and fry it up with a good egg :-)

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