Got a kick out of these emails. My favorite parts are bolded.

Hey there, I’m nnnnnn. I got your email address from a friend and thought I’d get in touch. I’m kind of new to this whole thing, the internet and meeting people on the internet. I thought I’d tell you a little about myself, I’m 26 and single. I work at a jewlery shop as a salesperson, and I’m looking to meet new friends. I’m open for anything, we can be penpals, friends or I am open to an intimate relationship. I hope thats not too forward. I’m very into dining, camping, outdoors, dogs, beaches (when I’m lucky), and sunday football. I’m trying really hard to understand better, but I just get a kick out way men adore sunday football. Well if you’d like to talk some more then send me back an email, I have some pics for you too see as well. My email is nnnnnn@hotmail.com

Hey there, I’m Erica. My friend Amy talked to you some time ago and said that you were looking for a girlfriend. I beleive you two exchanged pictures and from the looks of the picture she gave me, I’m very interested in meeting. I’m looking for a relationship that’s not too serious but not too casual. I don’t like to put stereotypes on relationships but I would like a “friends with benefits” type of relationship. Maybe we could be exclusive, I’m not really into sleeping around. Anyway I have a little web page that tells some more about me, check it out and tell me if you’d be interested in getting together. If not, I’m sorry to bother you, my friend just said you might be interested. My page is:
<web site removed>
Hope to talk some more

Sometimes the spam is interesting. The funny thing is I read the first real sentence and think, SPAM!

Technology is fun, I admit it. Sometimes we let a little bit of common sense out the door. If you give anyone any information electronically, then you must be prepared for everyone to have access to that information. Period. End of story.

Email is not confidential. Instant messaging is not confidential. The files on your computer only as confidential as the lengths you have gone to protect them.

This includes government and corporate computers. None of them are so secure as to make it impossible that information cannot be obtained by an intruder.

Why am I hopped up on this? Got an Out of Office message from someone and in 30 seconds identified that person’s home address. I was curious if something I had read recently [1] was truly this easy. If you set up something to respond to every email you get, then you are responding to any stranger that emails you.

It scares me that people trust computers so implicitly.

1. Scam alert: do “out-of-office” e-mail auto-replies help burglars? (Boing Boing Blog)

Maybe because I am so deeply wrapped up in this computer stuff I have a concept of dangerous this stuff can be? Perhaps because I see people trying the easy tricks for attempting to break into my computers I have a concept that “bad guys” are out there.

That awareness has made me semi-paranoid.

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