$1 to 6 People... I hate these things...

If you ever peruse message boards, you have seen those "send $1 to 6 people and post this message on a bunch of boards and put your name on it and you get rich" type crap. Hopefully, you have never fallen for this nonsense. The newer ones use PayPal instead of regular mail.

Anyway, I am building a "sucker list" for future misuse. I have been compiling e-mail addresses and mailing address/names in Excel. I have 2 different files, 1 for email, and the other for snail mail. If these people are gullible enough to send their personal info out on the web, they will buy that bargain $2000 vacuum cleaner or fill out another credit card application. I know, you think I'm evil. Thinking about and creating the list isn't evil, though. What I may do with it would be. I could either use it to try to help them not fall for such obvious scams, or I could sell the list as a "guaranteed suckers list" to various companies that feed off the gullible. I could even be far more devious and attempt to con them myself with some diabolical scheme.

Those who know me know that I would be a very successful criminal if I weren't so darn nice. So, I'm open to suggestions regarding what to do with this list. I have thought of publishing a newsletter and using the list for my "subscription". However, I have nothing of value to write in the newletter other than "don't fall for these Ponzi schemes" and perhaps a link to my blog.

Right now, I have over 100 email addresses and those are only from AOL message boards. I had over 500 before, but my computer died. It took me about 20 minutes to find the 100 emails and eliminate double entries. With a few hours effort web-wide, I'm sure my list would swell to several thousand.

Why is it that only I think up this kind of stuff?