FTC Says Replying to Spam Not Too Risky

In the annals of Internet folk wisdom, "Don't reply to spammers" is right up there with "Don't e-mail your credit card numbers to strangers" and "Don't believe all the 19-year-old supermodel lookalikes on AOL chat rooms." However, in a recent experiment carried out by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, researchers found that replying to spammers may not be as dangerous as previously thought.