from Sam Heywood: > I am still getting some spams about the illegal cable TV descambler. > According to my understanding of the law, it is legal for someone > to sell you some technical plans on how to make an illegal cable TV > descrambler but it is illegal for you to make one and/or to possess one. > The same applies for destructive devices and other illegal weapons. You > may legally publish and sell the plans on how to build them but it is > illegal to make them and/or possess them. In any case it illegal to spam > people.
That cable TV descrambler ad claims it's legal, but naturally I have grave doubts. I don't know about the legality of publicizing technical plans for destructive devices and other illegal weapons, but there would be the likelihood of a visit by the FBI. > It is illegal to send unsolicited bulk email. Period. Also it is illegal > to promote a chain letter scam through the US Postal Service. All chain > letters are frauds and scams by legal definition. Regarding that chain-letter pyramid scheme with the five reports for $25, the message says it's legal, that they're selling something of value, namely the five reports. But it's still, to all intents and purposes, a chain-letter pyramid scheme. > I consider the porn scams and the viagra spams and the virile member > enlargement spams and the breast enlargement spams as highly insulting > because the spammer is making the preposterous assumption that his target > audience suffers from a sicko psychological complex about about some kind > of imagined sexual inadequacy. The few and unusual people who actually > do suffer from such imaginary hangups and problems need help from > professional counselors. There is no way a common low-life spammer can > help them. I do find those penis-enlargement spams funny in that people are expected to really believe the message. Funnier yet is that spam promoting a product supposed to increase not only your penis length and thickness but also the number of squirts you get when having sex. People are expected to take that seriously?
