| As AdellaBedella said - when I go to ask for something where I suspect that they may peddle my address, I get a new free email address from one of the sites that offer them, often including a set of letters or a word that relates to the issue to which I was responding. Unfortunately, I'd replied to some from my core addresses before I learned that lesson. And paid the price of my ignorance. Have you learned that frequently when you "Reply to all" from one of those messages, on a high percentage of the cases, you'll get a reply from the service provider saying that there's no such address as that from which the sender claimed to be sending. And from a substantial number of the other addressees, as well. I ask you - if a salesperson appears at my door, with a warm handshake and a big smile hanging out on his/her face ... ... and gives me a fake name for himself or his company, or a false address - what do you think the possibility might be that that person would find him/herself doing any business with me? Sometimes if I want to check one out, I've gone directly to the website from which they've sent their message - which often gives one a bit of a feeling about what may be going on. Sometimes when I've received messages purporting to be from an established financial institution asking for personal information, I've gone directly to that agency's website, asking if they want me to forward the suspect message, including Full headers. I seldom get a reply, and not many want me to forward the info. I think partly because they've found that the sites at issue were only used for a very short period and the perpetrators have already moved on. Or are untraceable, anyway. Or, if they succeed in finding them,it's almost impossible to prosecute. And the perpetrators just move to another address, jurisdiction, etc. and carry on. Have you looked at the last two letters of the email address from which many originate, indicating in which country the service provider operates? You might be inclined to buy drugs from some two-bit country? But - you can sign up with a service provider in distant countries, so there is no certainty that the originator of the message resides anywhere near the location from which his message originated. Or that the goods might originate from either of those countries. What do they think that the possibility may be that I may choose to put powerful drugs from an unknown source into my precious, irreplaceable body?? If the capsules aren't just filled with sugar - suppose I ever got any, as often the scammers just abscond with the money, sending nothing in return. Good wishes for finding (the occasional) worthwhile freebie. ole joyful P.S. Anyone need some Viagra? Or the opportunity to share in 15 million or so of unclaimed money in some obscure land, belonging to someone who was killed in a plane crash (with no relatives). They sure have a lot of foreign exchange managers in the Bank of Africa in Oagadougu, Burkina Faso, no? o j | 
