For a long time I've periodically gotten these "survey" fax spams that post a yes/no question on some public policy issue and ask you to fax back your marked "ballot" to a 1-900 number costing $4/minute. In the disclosure of the fee, they often note that it's a "small price to pay for liberty" (they claim to forward the results to appropriate civil authorities. I always toss the silly things.

But the other day I got one that's utterly brazen: the survey asks whether I want to get more of their spam or not (!), and I'll pay $3.95/minute for the privilege. I'm sure I'd be shocked to find out how many idiots responded to this one way or the other, and of course the idiots are the enablers for the spammers in the first place.

Just amazing. Posted by Steve at November 08, 2003 12:55 PM | TrackBack