Hi Dave,

Although I'm not in NZ, I'm having this sort of thing at the moment into my Yahoo mailbox. ?I never open the emails as it's recommended that you doesn't if you don't recognise the sender's name because it alerts the sender that it's a 'live' email address and encourages even more spam to arrive. ?Unfortunately every now and then the subject of the email closely resembles something that's going on in my life at that time and it's a real dilema whether to open it or now. ?The trickery infuriates me as it is purely geared to lure you into a site you'd rather not go into. ?Some of mine are porn sites, which is quite upsetting as I'm never sure what I've clicked on to bring forth these unwanted offerings, but I also get sites that are selling stuff like medicines. ?

These emails do come in batches and then it goes quiet for a while. ?They also show people's names as the author. ?I don't know where they come from or what their content is as I try not to open them so there could be all sorts in there. ?The usual reason for spam arriving is that you've clicked on a site that is somehow linked to the spammers e.g. some sites sell or pass on people's email addresses. Just having your email address anywhere on the Internet is enough to start off the spamming. They have 'crawlers' that scour the Net looking for addresses.

It's a real pain and I wish they'd find a way to combat it. ?