This email I got was titled Hate Your Cable company? We have the solutions

[SargeUNN]

I thought I would share it and let you express what a piece of garbage it is. I did make it spam to go to my spam folder. Here it is:

Hey Overpaying Cable Customer,

Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to pay your cable company every month???
Wouldn't it be even better if you could get over 4,500 TV channels for free? Well lucky for you, I'll show you how with this exclusive Get Free Cable Video.?? ????
Watch the Video Now to Get Started
With Stream Direct TV you get over 4,500 TV channels with no monthly fee? You'll get awesome HD content and an amazing selection of programming. You'll get channels from all over the world including:
-Uncensored channels
-Unrestricted football and other sporting events
-Premium cable content shows
Watch the Video Now to Get Started
You have nothing to lose except your cable company,

Todd Jackson
Getting Cable for Free Newsletter

[elocs]

1. When something sounds too good to be true it usually is.

Yet thousands of enough suckers bite on spam offers to keep them coming. A fool and his money are soon parted.

[Warpy]

2. Something for nothing is either illegal or illusion

It just never works as advertised.

[realisticphish]

3. Sounds like a cracked satellite set up or something

most definitely not legal, I would imagine

[liberal N proud]

4. 4,500 TV channels?

Who would have time to watch that many?

Too good to be true? I think so.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Seems as though this stuff actually works, although...

no one wants to explain how. Hundreds of hits when searched, but most of the sites returned seem to be paid for by these guys-- the ultimate Googlebomb. Yahoo answers is the only place someone actually claims to have used it. And CNET accepts their ads, which is hint they're not completely crooked.

You do, of course, need a high-speed connection, which probably comes from your overpriced cable company. And most of those thousands of channels are things like Bulgarian church music channels.