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NY Holds Spam Scam Contest

Posted by michael on from the i-send-you-this-file-in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.

evilquaker writes "The state of New York's Consumer Protection Board is running a contest they call 'Spam and Bologna'. Their goal is to help educate the public, so fewer people will fall for Nigerian scams (and others) in the future. The contest is actually to find the most outrageous example of an email scam, and ends in one month. Yahoo! News provides some more information."

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  1. About Africa... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm a student of Darwin. I believe that we should stop supporting such obviously inferior countries and let them self-destruct without intervention. It's Nature's way. The US, et al, seem to think that if they dump enough money into this dodo-bird of a continent that it will somehow recover, but the truth is that we're only delaying the inevitable extinction. Instead, use the money to help developing countries that at least have a chance of succeeding, like those in Latin America.

    Also, once the dodo bird is dead, we can use the newly-empty continent to store our garbage and nuclear waste. It's a win-win situation.

    1. Re:About Africa... by the_unknown_soldier · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      theres something about killing billions of people that i don't find funny

  2. Slow night? by houseofmore · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man I've had some stories turned down in my day, but what the hell.

  3. Re:My favorite version of the Nigerian style scam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This should be rated -1; troll as it is anti-american and politics.

  4. AHHHH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    my eyes MY EYES!

    1. Re:AHHHH by Aaron+England · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Don't you mean ears? (:

  5. Fri5t pseot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    though I have nEver

  6. What the fuck are you smoking dipshit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    George W Bush
    A confirmed war mounger
    Needs a big nuke rammed up his ass.
    George W Bush