Just about the most pathetic lure for malware I've EVER seen

This landed in my e-mail and thought I'd pass it along for y'all to laugh at also...

Leaked deleted harry potter chapter

Harry Potter to me
6:44 AM (1 hour ago)

Thought you might like to see this. It's a leaked champter
which the editor removed from the last Harry Potter book.

You won't believe what was in it. I saw it in the news today and found it online, but I don't know how long it'll last. Getit while you can!

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Use regular download, not premium. That way you don't have to pay anything.

I didn't have to do a search on Google News to know this one was phony as they come. The idea of J.K. Rowling writing a chapter that her editors wouldn't think appropriate for the best-selling fictional series of all time is hilarious!

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Sign of the times: Spam production can't keep up with demand

The New York Times is reporting that Hormel is pulling out all the stops to keep up with a sudden demand for Spam. The classic "mystery meat in a can" was first introduced over seventy years ago and ever since has become a staple food for hard economic times, having cemented that status during the lean years of World War II. And now as many seriously wonder if we might be on the cusp of another Great Depression...

Hormel declined to cooperate with this article, but several of its workers were interviewed here recently with the help of their union, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 9. Slumped in chairs at the union hall after making 149,950 cans of Spam on the day shift, several workers said they been through boom times before — but nothing like this.

Spam "seems to do well when hard times hit," said Dan Bartel, business agent for the union local. "We'll probably see Spam lines instead of soup lines."

The article further reports that Kraft is another company seeing an upswing in the demand for its "low-budget" products, particularly macaroni and Velveeta.

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