Now, I don’t know about you, but I like SPAM.
Yes, yes, I do. specially pressed American meats.. Salty unidentifiable slabs of animal protein and…
Pork, Salt, Starch, Water, Ham, Sugar, Trisodium Diphosphate and of course, those yummy YUMMY flavourings, antioxidants and preservatives (Sodium Nitrite), De-lish.
Hey, I am a geek, so I had to go get the real ingredients. I am a fatgeek so I happened to have a can (or three) handy.
Now, Nigerian 419 spam? not so much.
In fact, I just received one.
What makes these things possible is that NOBODY responds to them. Well, almost nobody. And the people that do, are the ones they WANT to have respond to them.
But…
What if.
What if, everyone who received a 419 spam, instead of binning it and getting on with their lives, ANSWERED it.
It would take less than a minute a day. Just respond to one a day (if you get one).
What would happen at the other end?
Suddenly the spammer is getting back 100s (thousands, tens of thousands?) of responses instead of one or two.
And to do his business, he would have to READ them.
This makes the work on their end that much harder.
How much would they put up with before the job gets too expensive?
I dunno, but I am willing to find out.
Are you?