I have to agree spamming does work, or there won't be so many spammers. As I had read in the news recently, even a fine of millions of dollars seemed to be nothing to the spammers. They must be racking in millions and millions.
I'd just take those emails you get from "friends" you know, the people who have never sent you an original email in their lives - the ones who forward those messages about how we're not friends if you don't pass this along or....meh, you know the ones, suck the email address out of those messages cuz all the people who forwarded that are complete dolts and will fall for anything.