Scams about elections and statues
Scam #1
On July 15, Stephen Spoonamore, a former adviser to John McCain, reported that the CEO of Diebold, Bob Urosevich, personally applied a patch to voting machines in two counties in Georgia during the 2002 election. Both of these counties, DeKalb and Fulton, were Democratic strongholds. Democrats were winning the polls before hand, but Republicans won the election.
http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Cybersecurity_expert_raises_allegations_of_2004_0717.html
Scam #2
And then last night I got an e-mail from a friend that tells me all about this statue built in Iraq by an artist, Kalat, who used to be forced to make bust of Saddam. He gave this statue to the US's 4th Infantry Division out of gratitude for the US removing Saddam. The statue will soon be shipped to the US. The e-mail claims we didn't hear about this on the news because it is a sign that the Iraqi's love us American... except most of the story is not true. I remembered seeing the picture a while back associated with a scam, and then the the font in the e-mail changes multiple times in mid sentence from Comic to Arial, like a badly Photo-shopped picture.
The truth is a Sargent Major Fuss in the US 4th Infantry Division came up with the idea for the statue, paid for it, and shipped it to Texas in 2004.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/kalat.asp
On July 15, Stephen Spoonamore, a former adviser to John McCain, reported that the CEO of Diebold, Bob Urosevich, personally applied a patch to voting machines in two counties in Georgia during the 2002 election. Both of these counties, DeKalb and Fulton, were Democratic strongholds. Democrats were winning the polls before hand, but Republicans won the election.
http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Cybersecurity_expert_raises_allegations_of_2004_0717.html
Scam #2
And then last night I got an e-mail from a friend that tells me all about this statue built in Iraq by an artist, Kalat, who used to be forced to make bust of Saddam. He gave this statue to the US's 4th Infantry Division out of gratitude for the US removing Saddam. The statue will soon be shipped to the US. The e-mail claims we didn't hear about this on the news because it is a sign that the Iraqi's love us American... except most of the story is not true. I remembered seeing the picture a while back associated with a scam, and then the the font in the e-mail changes multiple times in mid sentence from Comic to Arial, like a badly Photo-shopped picture.
The truth is a Sargent Major Fuss in the US 4th Infantry Division came up with the idea for the statue, paid for it, and shipped it to Texas in 2004.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/kalat.asp