My first experience with spam that I can distinctly remember is a letter to my dad from Australia about a huge lottery he’d apparently won. I was then barely ten years old, and along with my mother credited my dad with the ingenuity to have carefully chosen an Australian lottery to invest a penny in it as a quick way to get rich, without telling any of us about it. My bright and cynical older brother constantly doused our hopes until my dad returned from work and drowned them down the toilet.

Man has known spam for as long as he has known God. Probably even before scams in the name of religion began, spam did in the form of sermons. Before we get into a circular debate about religion, let us first talk about spam in general. I predict that the world will soon witness spam awareness campaigns like AIDS awareness campaigns, and with good reason.

Here are the most common types of spam we get in our mail boxes.

Forwards: …Microsoft concurred to pay $1 for every 100 people this mail reaches. Please forward to all your friends…
Chain mails are now so old that after hundreds of funny chain mails mocking other

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