Spam attacks with strange consistency

This is really weird. My inbox is under some bizarre form of a spam attack. I'm currently being inundated with emails that are marketing two vastly different style products. The only conceivable common denominator is that both provide some form of transportation, albeit two vastly different ones. The first set of emails come from Hoveround wheelchairs. Because I'm still ambulatory, I don't quite understand how I got on their prospective customer list. Perhaps some internet widget has somehow monitored my habits, identified my addiction to writing, and determined that I will soon follow in the wheelchair tracks of George R. R. Martin and become too unhealthy to even walk to the mailbox under my own power. The other barrage of advertising is offering to help me "find great rates on luxurious private jets." Since I can't even afford to buy a new luxury car at the moment, I can't imagine where this marketing spam attack is coming from, either. Now if I could afford my own private jet, I would have to support a local Savannah business and buy a Gulfstream G650. Hey, I can dream, can't I? But, this begs the question: what does the internet know about my future personal needs that I don't? … [Read more...]