I Will Never Fall For This Again
 Wednesday, August 6th, 2008  by Connie T.

I don't even know why I clicked on this, or whether I actually would have worn lip sugar...maybe I was hungry. Maybe it looked sparkly - women, raccoons, and crows cannot resist shiny things. Whatever it was that possessed me, I followed an ad on a blog for "free samples" of Revlon Sugar Sugar Lip Topping.

Such a terrible mistake. The resulting page said that I just needed to complete two out of three free offers, or something like that. Like a dolt, I filled in all of my information and clicked next. Then I'm told I just have to skip through 10 or so advertisements, and the lip sugar is mine. Fine.

At the end of those ads, the page says that I just need to complete three out of five offers from their sponsors. What?! All this for a teeny little bottle of sparkles? Eventually I realized that I was never really going to get that free sugar, and that I'd been duped.

If only that were the end of the story. We are now assaulted on a daily basis with hundreds of spam e-mails, ranging from credit card offers to drug rehab info, auto insurance to fake e-Card messages, home warranties and college scholarships, satellite savings to hardwood floors and cosmetic surgeons.

So, if I ever don't return your e-mail, try sending it again, because I'm currently wading through spam hell thanks to a sugar lip topping mirage.

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