Sinclair Warns of Email Spoof

[gmoney]

Press Release
Source: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

Sinclair Warns of Email Spoof
Friday October 15, 11:03 am ET

BALTIMORE, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI - News) is notifying the public of an email spoof that attempts to make the recipient believe that they are receiving an email from Sinclair's CEO David Smith. The email is entitled, "Update on Kerry POW Film and FEC Ruling." Recipients should ignore and delete any such correspondence. Sinclair would also urge that any purported communication coming from a Sinclair executive or employee be confirmed as authentic.

Sinclair is in the process of tracking the sender of the email spoof and will determine whether to proceed with civil charges. Anyone found to be creating, forwarding, or posting such false emails may also face civil action.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies, owns and operates, programs, or provides sales services to 62 television stations in 39 markets. Sinclair's television group includes FOX, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC and UPN affiliates and reaches approximately 24% of all U.S. television households.



Source: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

(anyone seen the e-mail in question?)

[truthisfreedom]

1. not yet.

[JPace]

2. Does anyone have a copy of this "so called" spoof?

I'd like to read it.

[Lefty48197]

5. Oh dear God, don't forward the email!

They've already threatened to prosecute anybody who forwards it!

[Dogmudgeon]

12. They can't prosecute anybody

Only prosecutors can prosecute. There's no private prosecution in America ... at least, there's not supposed to be.

But they can try to sue for it ... if they feel like getting laughed out of court.

--bkl

[LTR]

16. Yeah right!

The government can't even stop penis enlargement spam!

Talk about your empty threats.

[Purrfessor]

20. What? Penis enlargement is a scam?

Oh wait, you said spam. For a minute I thought I'd wasted $19.95 plus shipping and handling.

Which reminds me: when they send out penis enlargement kits, I understand the shipping part, but what do they mean by "handling?"

[Dogmudgeon]

24. You DID waste your money

An emptied tube of caulk, a length of fishtank tubing, and a li'l ol' hand pump is all the gear that any honest man needs.

And if you're Jelqing, there's one secret device that makes it a breeze: rosary beads.

Hope this helped.

:evilgrin:

--bkl

[MADem]

17. FUCK THEM

They can't prosecute anyone for showing someone something that they received, unless they can also prove that the person was complicit in the deception.

If anyone got it, post it, let's see what it says.

Assholes, who do they think they are? The mafia?

[Lefty48197]

19. I guess I forgot to say...

<SARCASM OFF>

[MADem]

23. I do get riled at times! n/t

[0007]

22. More organized than the mafia and have much juice.

[aden_nak]

3. Email warns of "news" spoof.

[juliagoolia]

4. as if the whole world is reading their press release eom

[joeunderdog]

6. A ploy to get the word out.

Fuck them. I emailed the world my objection to their stunt next week. MY email went something like,
Dear Communists,
You suck.

No spoof.

[JoFerret]

7. Communists?

....meaning?

[joeunderdog]

11. In a figurative sense...

Government sponsored media, staying on message and punishment for those (newscasters) who don't, carefully crafted propoganda to the masses...that sorta thing.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

18. It always amazes me...

That so many people think that Communists are the kings of propaganda, when the undoubted master of propaganda is the American capitalist system.

Even the fact that you think it is the communists who best exemplify propaganda is proof that the capitalists are the best :-)

[Liberal_and_proud]

8. Can they do that?

The part that gets me is that thay say if these emails are "forwarded" or "posted" then you are subject to civil action.

Can they do that? If slanderous emails cannot be forwarded then every damn Republican out there would be off the internet.

[TexasSissy]

9. No, they cannot do that. Merely forwarding someone an e-mail

for them to see is not illegal (unless it's child pornography or something), as long as YOU don't represent the contents of the forwarded e-mail as truth.

It's like all those fake e-mails making the rounds that are false...the ones purportedly about Kerry owning Heinz and it does outsourcing (lies), the one purportedly written by George Carlton (a lie), etc.

[Realityhack]

10. Absolutely not

No way they could make that stick.

[taxismom]

13. Ed Shultz

was just talking about the Kerry campaign being offered equal time on the Sinclair stations and having three days to come up with something.
Could this be a result of the e-mail hoax?
I have heard no other source confirm this offer yet.

[MaineDem]

14. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[newyawker99]

26. Hi taxismom!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[newyawker99]

25. Hi Liberal_and_proud!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Kimber Scott]

15. Sounds to me like they wrote something they wish they hadn't and are

trying to pass the blame off on a mysterious spoofer.

P.S. The threatening of prosecuting forwarders is the tip-off. That would be impossible. I'll forward anything I want that is delivered to my Inbox with impunity. (Unless it's already illegal, like child porn or other such debaucery.) There is no law against forwarding supposed "spoof."

[sangh0]

21. Ah, but you're forgetting about the Spoof Protection Act of 2001

passed immediately after the world's biggest spoof took office!!