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The Interested Observer

Scam me, scam you blues

March 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Out of idle curiosity, I decided to google preform a Google search for Dr. Hawkes Schmoll who just wrote to tell me, I ‘ve won that big Micro Soft contest you’ve heard so much about. Here’s what I found:

Something quite amusing — a thread from all my fellow prize winners of Great Brittain pounds.

And

This Lottery Fraud website, that appears to be tracking scammer e-mail addresses and talks briefly about Microsoft being barraged with complaints from lucky spam recipients (or perhaps in some cases, not so lucky ones) who contact MSFT and accuse them of running criminal websites. Interesting.

I used to work for a guy who once said, “if it’s not on the internet then it doesn’t exist.” And sometimes, I think Marc was right A lot of the time, actually.

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