Lately, I’ve seen a new type of spam-like thing emerging. It’s always some email or web advertisement that offers you some incredible incentive (free laptop! free XBox 360! free beachfront house!) for your opinion on some completely irrelavent subject (should Bush be replaced? which is better WalMart or Fred Meyer? which Olsen sister is cuter?).
I haven’t bothered to click through any of these, so I’m spouting off with incomplete knowledge, but I can’t help but guess that none of these peddlers have any intention of giving you anything, and I know that they’re not just interested in getting your opinion on the inane question that they dangle in front of you to tease you in to their web.
Have any of you braved the security risk to click through and find out how they convert your time into money for them?
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my theory is they are just harvesting email and other personal data for further advertising purposes.