What Does the Junk Email Mean

Realtors get tons of junk email that sneaks its way around the spam filters.  Sometimes the nature of it is disturbing.  And I'm not just talking about the pharmacutical stuff!  A lot of what we are receiving is about short sales and foreclosed properties. (A short sale is where the proceeds of sale aren't enough to pay the closing costs, exisiting mortgages and other liens.)  It really hasn't seemed that the market conditions in the Albany/Capital District have been that bad, but when I see so much of that kind of email, I have to wonder.