UK’s Metro news have an article about testing a Super Spam Me test spearheaded by Internet Security Firm McAfee. This marks the celebration of the 30 years of Spam mails and accepting them, in-turn fighting them.
50 people will be given unprotected Laptops, new email addressees and 250 UK sterling on a credit card to claim the goodies on offer. During week one they will sign up for everything offered free, week two will be for downloading free music and week three will be for the get rich schemes on offer. The idea is called “Super Spam me” and celebrates the sending of the first Spam email 30 years ago by a Californian electronics company.
This sounds a great way of showing what accepting Spam will do to you or your computer although I wonder what will happen if one of the so called scams is actually genuine, if you can earn millions in a few week doing nothing or if you can get free laptops for just clicking here. Its highly unlikely but you never know. Wether they try the numerous viagra offering websites and lose 10 stone in a month sites isn’t made clear.
Personally, I’d think twice before opening Microsoft-Word attachments let alone the ones that aren’t even in English half the time. I tend to leave the dodgy ones in junk or just delete them, I could be throwing away thousands of course but its probably the safest bet. With so many crooks trying to nick your personal details and so many viruses around the experiment will almost certainly tell us what most of us knew all ready, don’t accept or even open anything you aren’t sure of and keep all online protection up to date and running. This is of course why McAfee are doing this as well as it being a good idea to show what is out there at the careless click of a mouse. I will post what happens if it gets published but if I find that one of the make a million scams is for real I may be on a beech somewhere when I send it in.
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