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Makes a change from sunflower seeds
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 08:16

A TEAM of 50 victims working for McAfee is planning to sign up for every spam they get sent over the next three weeks.

The 'Super Spam Me', experiment will try to prove if spam can actually deliver anything other than a bad trojan.

The 50 guinea pigs will get unprotected laptops and fresh e-mail addresses and be allowed to spend £250 on what ever the spammers offer.

In the first week, volunteers will sign up for any 'free amazing offer' they come across, the week after they have to agree to thousands of 'free music downloads'. Week three they will buy into any get rich schemes before trying to buy drugs online.

The whole idea is the wheeze of Dave DeWalt, who said that the big idea is that it will show that getting 30 days of spam in your inbox is bad for you.

We would have thought that the experiment would be rather short as within five minutes the guinea pigs would have downloaded most of the viruses going on their unprotected laptops. µ

L'Inq
Metro

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rallengray@hotmail.com

SIGN ME UP! rallengray@hotmail.com

posted by : rallengray@hotmail.com, 29 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Me three!

sstone@gamemaster.com
sstone (at) gamemaster.com

posted by : sstone, 26 January 2009 Complain about this comment
spmtst@tm.net

spmtst@tm.net

posted by : spmtst@tm.net, 07 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Sign me up

Write me! :D
johnno@checkmydns.net
johnno (at) checkmydns.net

posted by : Johnno, 07 February 2009 Complain about this comment
rawr

lawrence.berina@gmail.com

posted by : rawr, 10 March 2009 Complain about this comment
MR

Hi

I'd like to see how good my spam filter is, plz send and sign me up for as much spam as possible on this account.

lieweheksi@hotmail.com

It's not my main account so don't be shy

posted by : LH, 10 March 2009 Complain about this comment
harris1984@live.co.uk

SIGN ME UP harris1984@live.co.uk

posted by : HARRIS, 11 March 2009 Complain about this comment
Wahoo!

Sounds good to me

posted by : tgwm31656@yahoo.com, 12 March 2009 Complain about this comment
cdbyrne

yes please

posted by : cdbyrne, 18 March 2009 Complain about this comment
feed it

let it roll

posted by : John Mahcon, 20 March 2009 Complain about this comment
feed it

SendMePills@partmaps.info
BigBootyTrudy@partmaps.info
BMOSOGOOD@partmaps.info
PoliticalBS@partmaps.info

posted by : BMOSOGOOD@partmaps.info, 20 March 2009 Complain about this comment
spam_wanter

I want spam please.

posted by : Nobody, 20 March 2009 Complain about this comment
Spam_wanter

Please send spam to
spamme@splunkit.com

posted by : Spamme, 20 March 2009 Complain about this comment
send me spam

send me spam
lukejea@gmail.com

posted by : Luther, 22 March 2009 Complain about this comment
sign me up

denperz_cs202@msn.com
persdenis@gmail.com

posted by : denise, 28 March 2009 Complain about this comment
Hello Good People.

Sirs,

I want to know more about this offer,

assnngeneralequipmentsupply@yahoo.com

Sincerly,

Eduardo

posted by : eduardo, 01 April 2009 Complain about this comment
858 531 7011

sign me up!
cell 858 531 7011

posted by : fadel ayoub, 16 April 2009 Complain about this comment
Email

ryan-kopf@uiowa.edu

posted by : Nyga Huston, 24 April 2009 Complain about this comment
richard brent

I think this is a fantastic idea. I'm actually a very gay homo, and dont mind all the gay spam I receive. Anytime I get some its great. sign me up, and send any spam that you know of to richardbrnt65@googlemail.com

thanks!

posted by : homoerectus, 29 April 2009 Complain about this comment
anton73ul@donet.ru

I'm also looking forward to getting spam!
Please, don't forget about me!

anton73ul@donet.ru

posted by : AddMe, 15 May 2009 Complain about this comment
SPAM!

Sign me up for Spam!

BEJAVUU@GMAIL.COM

posted by : Ben, 22 May 2009 Complain about this comment
SPAM ME PLEASE!

Anything and everything, please spam me, sign me up for it, interested to see just how much I can rack up per day. Thanks!

loveturd@aol.com

posted by : Parve, 23 May 2009 Complain about this comment
ME

ME TOO

posted by : p, 03 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Spam me w/ All You Got!

Please, oh Please spam me. I want to see how much spam I can get on one account.

Send your spammy goodness to

deballis@indiana.edu

Thanks a ton :)

posted by : Debra Allison, 19 June 2009 Complain about this comment
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