7 Year Old Gets Porn Spam From: (snipped) To: <comments@cauce.org> Subject: 7 year old's spam Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 08:33:40 -0500 My seven year old son opened a hotmail account (with my permission) so that he could send email to his grandmothers. Within a few months, his inbox had become flooded with spam. He was receiving as many as 30 spams per day, mostly pornographic. All of this was unsolicited, as he never "signed up" for anything on the internet. I think our mistake may have been allowing his name to be listed in the "white pages." We were forced to abandon the account completely and set up a different one under a different name. (I just changed his password, and let him think the account was "broken.") What kind of world is it when seven year olds are flooded with XXX rated spam? my question is : what is a 7 year old doing online anyway? 7 year old?