Monday, April 28, 2003

Interesting Spam

Like all good people, I hate spam. Occasionally I will look at one if it looks interesting AND it came from a website I know and frequent. I got a spam from Vote.com today. Usually they ask me to vote on some issue, ...the last one was Trent Lott, I think. Anyway, this one came from one of their "partners". Meaning, this company bought my email address off vote.com.

Anyway, it is interesting. Here's the scoop:

It's a site called LegalVote.com. It lays out the arguments of a court case and asks you to be the jury. The case that was specifically emailed to me was about age discrimination. I would tell you about the case, but I don't want to influence you. I found it interesting and I actually liked reading up on it and delivering a verdict. I suspect this is a clever ploy by the defense attorneys to see if they have a case or not. It's brilliant, really. Get thousands of people to respond to the basic arguments, get some demographic info about them, and use that info to strike or keep jury members in court. Evil, but brilliant. Check it out.