Grab A Billion Dollars
from the read-the-fine-print dept
In yet another and ridiculously more extreme publicity move a new dot com (they're still starting up dot coms these days??) is launching a contest where you can win $1 billion. Of course, the odds of winning are close to nil (1 in 2.4 billion), you have to agree to receive daily spam, and the payouts come over a 40 year period with the vast majority of it coming at the end ($620 million in the final year). I realize it's insured and everything, but my question is what happens to the winner's money (assuming someone actually wins) when this dot com inevitably goes out of business?
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Still a huge outlay for a startup
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Umm... okay maybe you'll just get banned.
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Billion Dollar Give Away
It appears that the company is putting a Trojan Horse on the computers of people who try to win the money in addition to all you say. It's quite a poorly written written program and distabalizes systems. I think the virus is trying to get new popup advertising from whereever grab.com keeps that sort of thing and for all anyone knows, it's probably sending out every keystroke pressed on a host computer along with information on ever down load.
It also seems that the contest rules cover a million dollars or at least the fine print on the one I read did that.
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