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Ken Magill

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Stupid Marketer Watch: I’m Getting This Why?

I hate it when companies try and bullsh!t me. Rite Aid recently sent an e-mail pitching Medicare Part D supplemental drug coverage into an account I set up in my son’s name on Yahoo.


Never mind that I’m not yet 65. It’s how Rite Aid got the address and why it claimed I received the e-mail that makes the nationwide drug chain the newest inductee into the Magilla Stupid Marketer Hall of Fame.


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Stupid Scam Watch: Magilla Gets a Hitman E-mail!

Got my first hitman scam e-mail this week. At first, I was excited. I’ve wanted to receive a hitman scam ever since they began appearing in 2006.


But then I realized I had been contacted by the Clem’s Closeout Bargains of hitman scammers.

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$236 Million for Spamming? That’s Nothing

The Clinton Herald in Clinton, IA is reporting a local Internet service provider has won a $236.4 million judgment against two Arizona residents for sending spam through its network.


And $236 million is nothing compared to others Robert Kramer, owner of CIS Internet Services, has been able to win.


In January 2006, Kramer was awarded an $11.2 billion judgment against Miami spammer James McCalla.


Kramer also earned a total of more than $1 billion in a judgment against three spammers in 2005.


Read the whole thing here.

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