Unwanted email can be extremely hazardous to a marriage on shaky ground. If you’re a wife trying to catch a cheating husband, don’t assume that every email he receives is from someone he actually knows or has been in contact with.
Recently the following email was sent to one of my email accounts:
Subject: A reply to your ad
Hey my name is brenda,
i think i spoke to you the other day in yahoo chat, I must say i owe you a big “im sorry”!! I had a really really bad day. I have thought about what u said and i think i wanna do this. Ive been married for 12 years so cheating will be a big move but im ready. I set up all my info at the site you sent me to and when ever your ready meet me there. ill leave the site up in my browser till you get there
Patiently waiting
brenda
What’s wrong with this email? For starters, I have never been in Yahoo chat. I don’t know a married woman named Brenda. And I’m not interested in cheating. The email is SPAM and it links to one of the many “married and cheating” dating sites.
I was going to delete this email and several others with similar messages when I realized that a wife who suspected her husband of cheating might take an email message such as this to be proof that he was cheating when he was not.
Every day garbage emails such as this one are sent to anyone with an email address. As with the message above, they are written in such a manner as to appear to be personalized to the “one” person receiving the email when in reality the same email is being sent to millions of email addresses at the same time.
Like anyone who has an email address, I get a flood of unwanted email. The easy money emails are easiest to filter out as are the blatantly sexually-oriented ones. There’s always several new scams or gimmicks or products being pitched via my inbox. None of these emails would cause concern when read by a suspicious spouse. I can’t say the same for email sent out by adult sites and personals services; sometimes they’re a little too personal.