Spam is usually not good. Sometimes it can be instructive to receive and read the spam, but don’t click on the links! Recently though, more and more, I discovered more kinds of spam(besides the typical viagra, cialis, enlargement of…, OEM software, windows 7, etc):

• phone spam – calling from BT(British Telecom) to check the billing details/phone line/internet line; the caller: usually someone with an accent from India; if you want to ask them about their company, though they pretend they call on behalf of BT, they don’t say too much. Usually, they wanna talk to the manager/responsible person. Average: 10 calls a day(at the company office).
• email spam – intelligent email spam:
  - someone “invites you to see the profile on facebook”, yet when u log in, your details are sent to someone else…
  - IRS phishing – a series of emails saying that u didn’t pay your taxes to the US government(yet we are in the UK!);
  - HMRC phishing – “Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application) – Please review your tax statement on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) website (click on the link below)” – spam/phishing link;
  - AvMed spam – “Your AvMed Statement is attached office. Please review and confirm our details match your records.” – with a pdf attached, which is a OEM software add. Smart!
  - Banks phishing – until now we received fake emails/phishing emails impersonating: Allience & Leicester, Bank of America and NatWest. Something about: we have a scheduled maintenance, so please update your contact details via this form online(and the link is some strange mozilla&chrome-rejected one!).
  - Microsoft Outlook critical update – “Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)” - when the update / new outlook was out, they also sent this email with a strange link in it…
• blog comments spam – we all know that, starting with “good website” to “I will bookmark it” and more: “I agree with this, but what do you think about this medicine-website, etc?”. Thank God for Akismet. Still, there are some who pretend to be legit, and… they escape!
• twitter spam – spam accounts, spam tweets mentioning your account and some link, spam DM, spam RT, spam everything – lots of spam. Still, from time to time twitter cleans up the twitter-sphere of some of these…
• google wave spam – I don’t have a google wave, but by observing and listening, I realized that if someone knows your wave account, he can just start waving at u and send u stuff! There’s not yet a security system of approving friends on google wave implemented…

and there are other kinds of spam also. These are the ones I encountered recently while being online and working at the company. Ingenious people – why not use their creativity for constructing something useful? Good question!