Almost since the invention of e-mail, e-mailers have battled unwanted junk mail, or spam. Since the creation of products like Spam Assassin, which acts like a Jewish rabbi making sure your emails are kosher, spammers have faded out, but in that time period Elvis impersonating e-mailers have more than tripled. Companies like Microsoft have opened up a new division to handle the development of Anti-Elvis filters.

“We’re seeing a drastic increase in the numbers of emails people get from Elvis@Graceland.com. Users will come in to work in the morning and have 30 messages in Chinese characters with the from saying it is Elvis. One woman is in counseling in Alabama because of the devastation it caused her…. Apparently she had met Elvis in August of 1977 literally days before he died.”

Attorneys at Vegas, Hipswing and Su-yu see this as an affront to their clients in Graceland where the widowed Priscilla Presley is tired of getting emails from people claiming to be her deceased husband. They claim that if they find the ‘perp’ who did this they’ll have to ‘litigate to mitigate’, ‘sue to stop’ and warned that no-one should step on their patent leather shoes.

The author suggests that e-mail users simply just set up a filter in their email client and deal with it that way. However some experts suggest you not due this so that legitimate email from Elvis not be sent to your trash folder. A representative of the RIAA was quoted as saying:

“If Elvis is out there then we want to make contact and locate him. He may need medical attention.”

The RIAA is very concerned that Elvis be located if he is alive. They claim that he would be a strong voice against illegal file swapping.