What happend during the pause?

A lot of you may have noticed that I have not been posting any scam e-mails since April of this year. To explain, I do this in my spare time and earn my money doing other things.

Doing these "other things" has prevented me from posting on a regular basis, as I would like to. I shall endeavor to change that in the future.

On a different note, I just had a look at my archives. Lo and behold! There are 1109 scam e-mails that been received on my various accounts since April!

Most days I get between 5 and 10 of them a day, but during the summer there was a low period with maybe 2 to 3 coming in daily. I reckon on that increasing as we get closer to the Christmas season.

This is certainly not the number which used to sent in the past. There were some years where over 4000 scam mails were received. That is not counting copies which were sent by readers.

I don't believe that means the 419 and lottery types scams are drying up. My impression is that some scams may not be working as well as they have in the past.

Unfortunately, there still enough people on our planet who have never heard of anything of scams like this before. So, it might be getting harder to get hold of potential victims, but I don't believe this will deter the various crooks from stopping their campaigns. It's just too easy!