You probably need no better indicator of how stupid some people can be than to peek inside your spam folder and see all the messages that promise you great health, sex, money or all of these things if you just click where you shouldn't click.
I just looked in mine for the first time in a week and I have more than a hundred e-mails telling me some person or company I've never heard of is holding a zillion dollars in settlement money for me. There are also many beautiful women (at least they say they're beautiful and women) who are desperate to have sex with me. They don't know who I am or where I live or what I look like…
…but I do have an e-mail address and that seems to be all you need these days to attract the babes…if babes they be.
Especially intriguing are the messages from someone claiming to have a new miracle drug that will help me with those alleged babes…or any other need I may have. The offers are right in keeping with the new thinking in this world that anyone who claims to be a medical expert is one and you should take the medicine they say to take. Buying pills from complete strangers with no known doctoring experience or education…hey, what could go wrong there?
I don't have to tell you these messages are bullcrap of the highest aroma. You're smart enough to know that. But maybe, like me, you've long thought, "These keep coming and coming…can someone somewhere possibly be getting the desired response from them? And now in the era of COVID-19 and the response of some people to it, we have our answer: Yes.