I’m not sure I understand why spammers sometimes change the date of their e-mail so that it goes to the back of someone’s in-box. For instance, just today I received two messages that appeared to come from both January and February of last year. Do they think that if I don’t see the message right away, I’ll be less inclined to delete it? Do they think that I’ll at some point accidentally sort my e-mail in reverse order and decide I just have to open their message because it’s the first one I see? Do they think I’ll actually believe it arrived when it says it did and that it wasn’t deleted then because I wanted to keep it, much less follow through and send them money?
Or (and I now realize this is probably closer to the truth), are they just too stupid to figure out how to change the time and date settings on their own computers?