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Spam King Living High in the Bayou

Posted by michael on from the spam-and-eggs-and-spam dept.

mikey573 writes "Connecticut's main newspaper, The Hartford Courant, decided to bring the issue of spam to the forefront with a top headline front page story Spam King Living High In The Bayou in its Sunday print edition. The article goes into describing the spam marketing company "Opt-In Marketing Services". The article goes too much into glorifying one person's success with spam, while failing to underscore the potential problems he has caused for others."

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  1. Yeah, him and much of Nigeria... by RyanFenton · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    The Infamous 419 Scam

    It's a billion dollar industry in Nigeria, and has paid for the careers of much of that nation's government.

    It has, however, allowed for some very interesting counter-scams:

    The "Buddy Weiserman Counter-Scam

    The "David Lee Roth" Counter-Scam, with cache

    The "Kieron Dykes" Counter-Scam

    :^)

    Ryan Fenton

  2. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 54 by seeksoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CNN hasnt said anything on it yet? So I guess there is no confirmation?