Via the Spam Kings blog comes the news of AOL's "Spammer's Gold" sweepstakes, which offers normal Internet users like me and you the chance to win a spammer's ill-begotten cash. From Spam Kings:
The AOL Spammer's Gold Sweepstakes runs from August 10 through August 19. According to the official rules, the Grand Prize is the Hummer (approximate retail value, $45,000) plus $20,000 in gold bars and $65,000 in cash. AOL is also giving away one daily cash prize of $1,000 to a entrants who answer a trivia question about online security and safety. (There's even a cheesy "Official AOL
Spam Patrol" certificate for people who participate each day of the contest!)
Personally, I think the coolest part of the contest can be found in the Official Rules (highlighted in bright yellow):
Information collected from entrant is used only for the purpose of the prize drawing and to notify the winner and will not be re-used, sold or shared in any manner by America Online, Inc., (the "Sponsor"), Marden-Kane, Inc., or any third parties. Once the Sweepstakes has ended, all information supplied by entrants will be removed from the database.
In other words, you won't receive any spam from entering the sweepstakes.
At 7:40 on August 10, 2005, sirilo santiago jr wrote:
i would like to enter spammers sweepstakes
At 8:28 on August 10, 2005, Martey wrote:
When I saw this, I literally burst into tears. What is wrong with you? Did you not read the entry, which has the link to the sweepstakes?
What is with all of the weird comments lately? Is this some kind of sick joke? Why do you people hate me?
At 9:13 on August 11, 2005, Paul Feder wrote:
Good Job
At 8:09 on August 15, 2005, Gwen Ishoy wrote:
It's about time there were consequences that hit where it hurts. Good work!
At 10:55 on August 15, 2005, Martey wrote:
I had virtually nothing to do with this. I do not work for AOL. Go thank them.
At 11:09 on August 15, 2005, William Maltais wrote:
I am Happy people are watching for spam. I hade the same e mail in my box ,but did not open it . I did not know it was spam. Now I Know to do With this kind of mail , Hit The Spam Button. Thanks