I just got an email offering to sell me some "alluvial gold dust" and have no idea what that is. Can you tell me whether it has any value on the market and if so, roughly what it's worth?...

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I don't get it, Dave. I get reams of lame, idiotic spam email and occasionally read through them to see what offers are being made, and they're just so incredibly dumb that I can't imagine that ANYone would ever respond....

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MySpace is really starting to suck. The latest problem I'm finding is that people are leaving me comments that are just weird, and seem like some sort of stupid advert for their own businesses, but they don't make sense. Do...

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My wife found an email from my spam box in my gmail account that was a reply from an email that was sent from my email address. The problem is I never wrote the email. The address reply is my...

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In the past 3 days I've received dozens of returned e-mails that appear to be sent by my domain name but that are not valid email addresses. For example I received a returned e-mail today that was "sent" from nvsnx@mydomainname.com...

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