What, sounds crazy?  To hard to believe?  Well, check out the email below and you’ll clearly see that I was awarded this based on my email address being randomly selected.  What luck! 

Look further and you’ll see this has to be official because it is from atmdesk02@gmail.com but I am to respond to atmdesk01@gmail.com – nice way to keep the outbound and inbound emails separate, I suppose.

Ok, so enough sarcasm but I believe there are two interesting points that this little gem illustrates: 

First, it is spam and was tagged as such but these things continue to be sent out because someone somewhere does think they have won something even after all the coverage and awareness around them.  If they didn’t work they would disappear. 

Second, I receive a great deal of solicitations via email as a VP of Marketing and am always dismissive of those that are “business” correspondence coming from somethingclever@gmail.com or nickname@aol.com.  We live in a day in age where buying a domain and having email for it is about as cheap as a latte so not having a business email for business makes you highly suspect in my book.