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Old 12-28-2002, 12:48 PM  
strainer
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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funny beastie spam

Normally, I delete most spam without reading it, especially porn spam, but this one had me wondering. First because it is beasty porn (Illegal, I thought, at least here) and second because it promised to be "totally free". Yeah, sure, but I was curious what their gimmick was.

So I click on the link, and sure enough, there are girls posing with horses. Not illegal at all, I guess, but here was the funny part. They only want a diver's license or ss number. Nobody I guess would be stupid enough to hand over a real one, but I was curious how you could possiblky make money off that???

So after selecting "drivers license" I get the following message - priceless!!!

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As you know, surfers who want to verify their age with a ss or dl number have to fax us a copy of their card, and we then confirm it and send them an email with their username and password. The problem is that this takes at least 7 days. Even though our poor overworked staff moves as fast as possible, it still takes an average of 7-10 days to verify, while people with credit cards and checks get verified instantly and get to enter our site right away.

We get a lot of complaint emails about this and we agree that it's not fair! Why should someone with a credit card get in faster than someone without one! Well, the reason right now is that we are able to do cc and check verifications online but for ss and dl we have to go through the damn dmv! And you all know how slow the dmv works!

We are building a new system for you guys without credit cards. This new system will allow us to verify your dl or ss number electronically and will reduce verification times to 12 hours or less. It's still not as fast as cc or check but that's only because we have to wait for you to fax us copies. From the time we receive that, it will only take us 2 hours or so to verify and send you your user and password! The new system will be up on Sat 04 Jan 2003.


We apologize for this inconvenience and are working hard to reduce the wait time for you. So either come back on Sat 04 Jan 2003 or if you absolutely want to get inside right now use a cc or personal check for age verification and you will be in within 2 minutes.

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Funny, eh? After reading this shit, I am 100% on Visa's side now. Most of you guys should be closed.
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