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Spam Leaders: Gevalia coffee and AARP

Cleaning out a few thousand incoming junk mails from the past month and the leading offenders in the major brand category are Gevalia and AARP - the American Association of Retired Persons.

If you've read about spam in this blog before, you may recall that I'm still waiting for both of them to call me back and explain why they are such persistent spammers.

Gevalia, by the way, isn't just counting on email spam. It's now heavily involved in Twitter spam. What is it about spam that so-called legitimate organizations find so attractive? The ability to have the recipients pay for their advertising?

-g






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