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Not a bratwurst at a ball game.  Not a US open tennis match in summer.  But the title of an email that I found in my junk mail.  Clearly categorized as SPAM.  Not from the tin but of the intangible kind.  Until of course you click on it salivating to get hooked with what your imagination can cook up and bam - you tangibly stand to lose your life savings.

I decided one fine evening to go through all my junked category of mails to see what it is that the desperate phishing scammers are offering.  And more importantly what sort of goofballs are actually succumbing to this invitation.

So these spammers blast cyberspace with their millions of messages working with the law of numbers.  For every million smart users there is 1 sucker.  That is all they want.  I am being generous in that they probably get way more than 1 per scam.

The titles of these items in no particular order were -

1.  Enlarge your penis
2.  Lets hook up tonight
3. Mrs. Helen
4.  Apple Cider
5. Coupon for oil change
6.  eHarmony
7.  Direct Insurance
8. Loan Department
9.  Melissa
10.  Melissa (again - some persistence here)
11.  Lasik vision


I concluded that the gullible must either like certain names more than others to the point they want to click to see more;  take any chemical or offer to imbibe chemicals that can alter their genitalia; drink some strange beverage sold online; get insured in case things really go south; and while they are at correct their eye sight so they can see the damage they are about to inflict.

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