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Termyn8or -> RE: A sporting proposition: get the scammers! (7/2/2006 2:20:35 PM)
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Spammers are the same lot as telemarketers, but they are paid by the hour to do it.
"This is Time Life Music, and we have a fantastic offer for you"
"OK"
"Bla bla bla this and that"
"Can you get me Hank williams Sr's. Thirty Pieces Of silver ?"
"I'll have to talk to my supervisor"
long pause.
"I can get you that if you buy the whole Alan Jackson collection"
This went on and on, I tied them up of a good 40 minutes going back and forth. Then....
"Oh shit, my dog got loose, hang on"
I handed the phone to a friend and whispered "Say 'I'll call him now' and then push the button". This hung up on Time Life Music of course.
A buddy of mine got one of those Nigerian letters, bearing the surname of his maternal Grandmother. How they got that who knows. I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to scam the scammers, but I never came up with a viable plan. Would've been nice though.
I am now to the point that I will avoid buying anything advertised like the plague. If I see it on TV I know I don't want it. I talked to a rep at a local TV station about some advertising, and he told me that TV advertising isn't worth it unless you can mark up the product 300-400 %.
Spamming is indeed alot cheaper. In fact, including Norton's and McAffe's on new PCs turns me off. It is always a trial version that nags you on every fucking bootup to upgrade and buy. I will have neither as a result.
There is one state, Oregon maybe ? that has criminal penalties for spamming. Don't quite know how enforcement works, but they got Larry Flynt somehow. I guess what we need to do is lobby more than the spammers. By more I mean more $$$.
All mass market ads steer me away from the product.
Another friendly group are the ones who want you to refinance your home to pay off credit card debt. People, credit cards are unsecured, that means if you burnem, you keep all the stuff.
An even worse scam is where you win a lawsuit and instead of giving you the money they give you an annuity or whatever. Then you can go to JG Wentworth to get a lump sum. People are dumber than dirt. Lemme tellya, if I sue you and win I want all my money NOW. These people who lose never really pay the money, just the interest on it, then the recipient pays interest to get the lump sum later. Duh. Ever wonder how people get rich ?
All in all, if you look at advertising overall you would get the impression that we are all incontinent, impotent, can't go outside because of allergies and apparently our road vehicles costing tens of thousands of dollars are useless after five days. But we will give you $6,000 for your car that belongs in a scrap heap.
If I were an alien tapping into our TV and radio, and maybe some of the spammers I would not come here. No wonder no little green Men have popped out of a spaceship and said "Take me to your misleader".
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