This is the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time. I am no longer getting emails from scammers who tell me I have millions of dollars waiting for me from a deceased, long lost relative in Nigeria. Why, you might ask? The only reason I can think of is that I started posting them on my blog site.

Last year at this time I was getting at least 4 or 5 emails a week from scum bags who were willing to give me a zillion dollars and the only thing they wanted in return was for me to either give them my bank account information or to send them a good faith payment before they made me wealthier than Donald Trump. Some of these emails were very creative while some appeared to have been written by a person with a 1st grade education.

One day as I was bored and while cleaning out my email, I decided to use these scammers for my own amusement. I would email these knuckleheads back asking them ridicules questions and making underhanded comments that for some reason these Harvard Scholars never figured out were insults. I would email them telling them what horrible things I did to their mothers the night before and yet I would get a reply back thanking me for my correspondence and asking when I was going to give them my checking account number so they could direct deposit my millions.

When asked for my phone number I usually gave them the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s phone number and always wondered how many of these Einstiens actually called. No matter what I would say, or threaten to do to these slime balls, they would keep writing me. I wasn’t naive, I knew that once I responded back to these emails I was opening myself up for a flood of them but I have a good spam program and only read these scams when I was bored or wanted a good laugh.

Some of these scams were so outrages and amusing that one day I decided to share them with my friends. I started posting these emails on my blog site along with my response back to these shysters and we all got a good laugh at the scammers’ expense.

Now if you have ever owned a blog site you know that the software used to maintain the blog site tracks various statistics. It tracks such things as what search words were used to find your site, how many visits you have had to your site, what is the most popular post, etc. Well a few months ago I started noticing that a particular scam I had posted from a reported General Peter Alu was being regularly seen. It was getting up to 10 hits a day which was odd since I published this post over 7 months ago. Just like my email my blog site has a program that blocks spam as well. I noticed that these scam articles were getting an unusual amount of spam during the same time people were reading my posts.

Now the amazing part, I have not received one email from a scammer in over 3 months. I really can’t say if it is because I posted them on my blog site but I can think of no other reason. Evidently these yokels don’t like publicity or maybe they did call the CBI office thinking they were going to speak to me. It’s also a possibility that my email provider has somehow blocked these but who knows. Either way my spam filter is doing a lot less work now than it used to.

I am not suggesting that anyone respond back to these scammers or post their scams on a blog site. It’s just interesting that since I have done this I am no longer getting any emails from these nose bleeds. Maybe now I can concentrate on the work at home scams that are now populating my spam box.