Thank you but the last time I performed a cursory check on myself, I was not retarded.

Not to say there there aren't hundreds of thousands of people that this won't totally dupe, though.

Most people are retarded is what I'm saying.

Same as every other virus/malware/spyware out there ... Don't open attachments from unknown or suspicious senders, don't believe pop-ups while surfing, keep your browser updated.

@2 true story

If you're dumb enough to fall for this, I don't feel bad for you.

You know, Robert Scott, director of the Texas Education Agency, insists that designing curriculum to teach students critical thinking in addition to cramming them full of facts they'll have forgotten within six months after graduation is not only unnecessary, but is in fact a waste of time that is outside the educational system's objectives.

I don't know whether that means he's an idiot or a very forward-thinking internet con artist.

If you are dumb and therefore use Windows, you sorta deserve this shit. Eat 'um up!

Same warning goes for tax returns. Never trust emails. Always go to the source agency (in this case treasury.gov)

@6 uhhh... ya. using windows is a crime against nature. windows users deserve to bleed out from their eye sockets while being sodomized by a moose.

they're so stupid. hahaha. can't even use OS or linux, or whatever it is that you're into.

@6, it's SPAM, dumbass. Anyone with an email address gets spam, regardless of the brand of computer or operating system. I use a Mac, and I've received at least a dozen of these in the last couple weeks.

Just like lottery tickets, spam is a tax on idiots.

@6: What the fuck does this have to do with Windows?

(Obviously you're not quite the hip power user you seem to think.)

I'm wondering what the logic is behind people who fall for this. Is it like getting pulled over by a cop, where you have to pay each time it happens, or is there a new $400 piracy law immunity fee you can pay?

Wow, this thread is full of egotistical blowhards who think they're just too smart to get taken for a ride on the internet. Just wait you fuckers, they'll find your weak spot. Sooner or later you're going to be frantically forking over your personal info like the rest of us retards.

"It's not real."

Unfortunately, it is real. You really can't get the money back either.

Yeah, well laugh all you want suckers! The King of Chad is going to make me a millionaire just for holding on to some of his money in my checking account. I'll be waving to you from my limo soon.

I'd love to see someone do this, and then get a notice about rampant piracy on the basis that they gave this company money. Oh the hilarity.