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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. Re:Another great one by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, microsoft and their lovely extension to the URL format for http to include passwords before @ symbols...