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The only way (that I can see) to bring the purveyors of finest quality spam down is to hit the only part you can really find, trash their servers and increase the cost of them doing business.

Hell they want people to log on and buy their goods - everybody should.

1) Never click on the link in the email - cut and paste the address into a browser.

2) Order 3 or 4 tons of pharmaceutical enhancements.

3) Put in dummy address and credit card number.

4) Repeat.

None of the spam sites that I have seen do a real-time credit card check so the more dummy orders they get the more time is wasted as each one has to be manually checked and updated. The more realistic an address looks the more chance there is of somebody wasting time trying to process an order.

BTW - Credit card numbers are Mod10

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