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If you visit websites, or if your E-mail address finds its way onto a mailing list, or a directory listing, or none of the previous, you will very likely receive spam. The most annoying thing about spam is its volume; nobody minds receiving two or three unsolicited E-mails a week, but regular Internet users may receive dozens, hundreds or even thousands a day. Although most of these spams can be blocked, and some are screened by ISPs, they still take up unnecessary bandwith, waste your time, and often cause offence. Spam that offers to enlarge your penis is one thing, but spam that offers you pictures of naked children is another thing entirely, and although you may receive it unknowingly, if you open even one such spam E-mail you could be breaking the law, and risk being placed on the sex offenders register with all the stigma, ostracism and other problems this can cause.

In a letter dated 4 February 2004, a Crown Prosecution Service lawyer made the following points:

'If you receive spam and unsolicited emails which are advertising (or you have cause to believe are advertising) children engaged in sexual activity, you should not open or click any link etc but immediately forward such spam or unsolicited e-mails to the Internet Watch Foundation http://www.iwf.org.uk...?

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