Oopsie, you could be a winner...

I was just perusing the suspected spam list on my soon to be cancelled Earthlink account (I've been on a cable modem for several months now, and since I can use my cell phone as a modem when we travel, I'll be bidding farewell to Earthlink), and I was reminded of the ploy spammers use to get your attention. Most of the email addresses I use are a name, but not my name (see if you can guess what name that would be -- no, but close). So when I see some spammer who has a fantastic deal that Willy has to be a part of, I immediately know it's ignorable. But that brought a thought to mind, I set up an account called oopsie@... that I use when subscribing to something suspect. I don't check it after I get whatever information I need from the questionable site -- and given the size of my mailboxes now, I don't worry about it (FWIW, I recently checked and saw a lot of messages from the sites I used it for, but no spam at all). So I wonder how long it will be before I see a header saying

Oopsie, you could be a winner...