A new FTC study on spam says that most spammers lie.
Remember, you heard it here, first.
The FTC’s study, False Claims in Spam, which analyzed 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail gleaned from FTC databases and government officials’ in-boxes, found that 66 percent of spam contains some type of fraudulent claim.
[…] The FTC study found that nearly all spam pitching business opportunities contained some type of claim that appeared to be fraudulent, while half of all health-related spam was misleading.
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Even when the e-mail is mass forwarded by a friend there is a much greater than parity chance of being wrong. All bulk e-mail, not just SPAM, lies.
That’s why I blog things — because if it’s on the Internet, it must be true.
Wait a minute! That CEO in Nigeria isn’t going to give me $11,000,000!?!