The Viagra Chronicles

And now to something completely different: Viagra spam. I use gmail, and almost all of it finds its way to my junk folder, which I never open. But, somehow, I also get those annoying (and illegal) emails, offering me to enlarge my penis, get the blue pill cheap and fast, or enlarge my boobs. I call them all ‘Viagra spam’ and it seems like the same guy has been writing them.

A few weeks ago I started to receive more Viagra spam than the usual. I probably signed up to a newsletter i never needed in the first place, and my email was sold or stolen, and was being used by the spamers. I tried to add the recipient to the spam folder, to block the address, etc – nothing helped.

The solution I was offered by some friend of mine, was to use filters on my email box, and to add the word ‘Viage’, ‘Penis’, etc to the words that will automatically send the mail to the junk. Unfortunately,  I often get mails regarding this blog – which name is The Viagra Chronicles, and so this option was not going to do it for me.

I then opened  a new gmail account, which I gave only to my friends an family. I don’t use this account to sign to newsletters etc. – and the old account I use to read my newsletters, messages about my blog, and also some Viagra spam.

Now, it ain’t so bad after all.

Hope this helped,

Ella