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July 16, 2006

EMAIL Hell - Spend Hundreds of Dollars and Read Tons of Spam to Collect a Free $500 Gift

by Ferdinand T Cat

I'm sure most of you are aware of the $500 Spam Scam. Briefly, you receive an offer via EMAIL for a free $500 gift card. If you try to collect the $500 gift, you must register your EMAIL address with a spamming service, and then you have to complete 6 tasks. This is very similar to the story of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, except that even a super-strong demi-god would blanche at the thought of subscribing to Disney Baby Books or buying a crate of Self-Tanning Mousse. There are several credit card offers, but they don't count toward your free gift until you actually spend some money. The subscription offers also have minimum spending requirements. Disney Baby Books, for example, requires you to get at least nine full-price books before you can drop out.

So, like most spam, this $500 free gift is no bargain. Nonetheless, there is a new and more virulent form that is causing some trouble here at home. Bruce, after all, is not a superior life form, and he is on a hunger strike. When a man is forced to make his cheese omelets without any cheese in them, tempting him with a $500 gift card to Pizza Hut is cruel and unusual punishment. I managed to stop him before he bought the lifetime supply of Video Professor CDs, but it was a near thing.

These people have got to be stopped.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to Conservative Subscriptions, The Crazy Free Offers of Samantha Burns, Stuck on Bargains, and Basil's International Camp for Spam Refugees.

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And the spam you'll now be receiving is for more of the same. Be sure to complain to the parties involved, and to contact the U. S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.


Posted by: mythusmage [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 16, 2006 7:49 PM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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