Technology News: Security: Bill Gates Inundated with Spam — I am not buying this for a minute. I’m certain that Gates and Ballmer get lots of spam, but these numbers are ridiculous and only thrown out to get sympathy for the twosome and as a prelude to some anti-spam initiatives by the company.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gets up to 4 million e-mails a day and most of them are spam Relevant Products/Services from AT&T Network Security Solutions Latest News about spam, one of his associates says.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in Singapore the 4 million e-mails are really just a fraction of what’s sent to his boss, since he has an entire department charged with filtering out the junk, the BBC reported Thursday.

I suspect this story below may have something to do with the BS above.

E-mail identity system proposed to combat spam