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Patriotism is the first refuge of a spammer

Today I started getting spam trying to sell me one of those "Iraqi Most Wanted" card decks.

This despite the fact that a PDF of the deck is freely downloadable from the Central Command and the DoD has warned consumers that the decks on the market are fakes. (The ad copy tends to claim that the cards were printed by the DoD in Kuwait, were stolen off a dead Royal Guard, were collated on the thighs of an Iraqi virgin, etc.)

If there's anything I dislike worse than a spammer, it's a spammer wrapped in red-white-and-blue camo. Out of patriotic duty I reported the spammers to their ISPs. No sign of a "kill" yet, but I could always get lucky.

The one bit of good news: the scammers and spammers have apparently flooded the market; from a high of $200+ a couple of days ago, the decks can now be had for $5.95.

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