Garbage In, Garbage Out

I don't know about y'all, but the "quality" of my email spam is changing. (Have you seen the low sodium Spam and Spam Lite that Hormel is selling now? How is less sodium or fat supposed to make Spam more palatable? It's SPAM for God's sake! If you're gonna eat that, take it like a man and just get the complete original version!) My Yahoo account never got a lot of the "You pen1$ bigger, she luv u" variety, which is a relief. I mean, I'd much rather be unaware of any potential pen1$ problems I'm having. Wouldn't you? What I'm talking about is the "MCCULLOUGH DISTANT RELATIVE MONEY IN WILL" and "PLEASE help me cash money order!" kind. Just when you thought everyone had seen these stupid things, they seem to be making a comeback. I wonder if it is a sign of the economic times. Are people desperate enough to start seriously eyeballing these things, thinking "Hmmm... I wonder if this is REALLY a scam? I need to make my mortgage..."? Or tis it the season to be taken in by easy money schemes as we try to keep up with the Jones' spoiled brats and create an artifical peace with our families that we lack the other 364 days of the year? If this were after Christmas, I'd say it was an attempt to scam older people who just got their first computer. Maybe this happens every year, but I'm just noticing it.