Well another study has been done on spam e-mail and who is opening this stuff.

• Wall Street Journal Writeup
• PDF of research findings

When it comes to identifying spam, two-thirds used the sender’s name as a gauge, followed by 45% who looked at subject lines and 22% who spot other “visual indicators.” About 3% relied on the time a message was sent to identify whether or not it’s legitimate.

So what’s driving them to click on Cialis offers or fake Michael Jackson photos? About 17% said it was a mistake. Twelve percent were interested in the product or service, and 13% don’t know why they acted on the message. Six percent “wanted to see what would happen.”

In addition, 12% of respondents who indicated they were “very” or “somewhat” experienced with Internet security opened spam before deleting it, compared with only 11% of respondents who called themselves inexperienced who did the same.

Oh look, 13% are as dumb as bricks, and 6% like to walk on the wild side and experiment. And it seems that way too many people felt that their security software would stop harm from happening.

Spam is easy to spot. When you hover your mouse over the link and it says it will open www.goodstuffhappens.com instead of www.ebay.com you KNOW you have spam, everything else should be easy to spot because of the sender, subject and/or content.

Craziness. 

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