I just received some spam:

Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader? Get $1,000 VISA Card!

Please, the way the credit industry works, I’m surprised they don’t hand out credit cards to every fifth grader on the first day of class.

Oh, and it wasn’t like there was a link to an online quiz where you could prove you were smarter. No, it was just phishing for personal details…which even a fifth grader should be smart enough never to send.

Spam survives because it’s very cheap to produce and because a few people are very naive or gullible. It does not survive because spammers are smart.