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Laurence Canter, along with his then-wife, Martha Siegel, became infamous among early users of the internet after they sent the first commercial spam to drum up business for their law firm

Incensed with the message, others bombarded the couple with death threats and obscene phone calls and shut down their law firm's phones using auto-dialing software

Today, over 46% of emails are spam, according to the data gathering platform Statista

On any given day Laurence Canter peers into his email folder and, just like the rest of us, catches himself grumbling over the countless unsolicited messages for bogus job offers, free giveaways and sham alerts from banks clogging his inbox.

But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels

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