I have three emails accounts I use from home. One is targeted for work, one I used socially and the third is the one I use for registering when asked for an email address. The third one gets so much spam, I hardly ever use it except to go on to delete spam.

On my social email address I hardly ever get spam... usually the only spam I get are those who I've decided I don't want to read their emails anymore and I've marked their email addresses as spam.

My work email address until recently I never got spam. But over the last few months, while looking for a new contract, I started to get spam for drugs, rollex watches and sex sites... all items I have never searched for or suggested in any of my work emails that I might want to purchase any of these items.

Those who send these spam, must do so to make money, but it really makes me wonder how they stay in business... Do that many people actually click through and purchase fake rollex watches to pay for someone to go through the trouble? Selling real Rollex watches now, selling one $10,000 watch, would pay for a lot of emails though.

It makes me wonder if someone did a study which showed that for every 10,000 bogus rollex emails sent, it meant that another real Rollex was purchased, and that when more emails get sent, more people decide to purchase the real thing

It would certainly explain the increase in spam in my box.