I get a lot of spam asking me if I’m eager to increase the poundage of my male appendage, and I’m wondering if that’s because I have a male username (to go with the appendage) or if everyone gets the same ratio of Viagra/mortgage/porn spam as I do. IOW, is this stuff targeted at particular demographics, or does everyone get hit equally randomly?
I vote for “random”. None of my email addresses feature a recogniseable name-by-gender, yet I get tons of the willy enhancer ones (and I’m female). Worth a bit of a chuckle, tho’.
My mum gets spammed with it constantly.
When you learn what’s behind spam, you’ll realise how naive your question sounds. Spamming is largely an entirely automated and unfocused process.
Targeting techniques include: [ul][li]“Dictionary attack” on a particular domain name. E.g. 1@straightdope.com, 2@straightdope.com, a1@straightdope.com, a11@straightdope.com, perspicacity@straightdope.com etc.[/li][li]Buying lists of millions of email addresses that have been harvested “blind” from the Web, on a CD, and setting up a bot to send to all of them.[/li][li]A virus that uses the address book of an infected computer to send seemingly from one of the addresses in the list to all the other addresses in the list (this one seems to be dying out since MS sorted its security out a bit better).[/ul]Much of this stuff is done via “zombie” computers hijacked by trojans, sending from a self-contained SMTP server on the zombie computer, seemingly coming from addresses spoofed by the “dictionary” method, and/or via actual official, but unprotected, SMTP servers. [/li]
The thing about spam is that it’s reliant on quantity, not quality of target: and that volume is in the millions. The only real intelligence behind the process is the methods by which spammers obfuscate the origin of the spam.
No – and men with adequately sized equipment don’t either. They know, pseud – they know!
Ouch–that’s hitting below the belt!
Constantly. I guess they have seen my nethers and decided that my penis too small.
The only thing is, my penis is not attached to me, but my husband.
Well, I hope he shares it with you sometimes.
I can’t recall ever getting one. <shrug>
Apparently my penis is completely inadequate and everyone knows it but me.
I’ve checked, and it’s certainly inadequate, it’s practically invisible.
Yet, the spam floods on.
Usual complaints about spammers, special place in hell, and so on.
Spammers apparently think I’m insecure about pleasing a woman. And that I wish I had a much bigger penis. And that I’d want to see photos or video of underage Asian females interacting with various animals. I don’t!!
When, oh when, am I going to start getting spam tailored to my interests? All the privacy-advocate wackos keep saying it’s going to happen, but it sure hasn’t happened yet.
The one that I don’t get is the thought that I’d wish to increase the volume and power of my spooge. Who on earth would care about that?
It’s random and no one ever looks at the addresses used. Otherwise I wouldn’t be getting Viagra spam since my address is definitely female.
Well, every act of lovemaking must culminate in a vanilla-pudding geyser on your partner’s face, else she (or he) will not be satisfied.
Or at least that’s what I’ve learned from watching porn.
I once received a piece of spam e-mail with the delightfully ambiguous title, “Attract Men With Larger Breasts!” As a straight male, I’m not interested in attracting men. And even if I were, I probably wouldn’t be looking to attract the ones with large breasts. 
I have always gotten tons of those, which amused my mom back in high school, as larger breasts are the LAST thing I need.
The first poster to ask for a cite gets his foot shoved down his throat.
I have a couple of different email addresses, for different purposes. Two of them contain my real (female) given name and I get offers for an increased penis size as well as a boob job.
My spam asks if I want bigger breasts and a tighter vagina.
well, it’s not like there isn’t a niche for that 
“Hold me closer, Tiny Johnson / Count the headlights on the hotties…”