Like most people with email accounts I get way too much spam.  It's not nearly as bad as when I worked at Ritual though.  At Ritual, their website had all of our email address directly on the web page for a while, which as most people know now, is very bad.  At one point in time I was getting well over 100 spam emails a day.

Anyways, I got an offer today about improving the SEO of our website.  I get these occasionally and I don't think much about it and I file it away so it might be useful at a future date.  Even though I usually reply to most of my emails (sometimes slowly), I have never replied to one of these.  I know why now. 

When I got the one today, it seemed really familiar.  So I looked in the folder where I put SEO offers and yep I got another SEO offer yesterday.  So I clicked on the one from yesterday and just about nothing changed, just the person's name and company name.  Then I checked the other 5 emails that I have saved.  Surprise, surprise they are almost all the same and look something like this:

My name or email address

4 lines of generic SEO offer + some gmail address

Sincerely,
Some Name
Blah Marketing

Each one is a different person and only 2 of them have the same company name.  What is the chance any of these were actually sent by a person?  I would guess zero.

Anyways, I'm just amused that I have gotten a bunch of spam that is pretty relevant to me and doesn't contain obvious spam links, but it still is off putting enough that I have never replied to any of them.  Even more amusing is that they have sent so many of them to me that now I know they are spam.

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