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Over the weekend, pranksters spammed Xbox Live users with a message advertising the sale of 23 year-old Christa Manos' baby girl. The message included her phone number. Manos is not impressed.
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Child For Sale on Xbox Live, Free Shipping Included [Xbox]
Gizmodo —
... swarms of Xbox Live users, offering a 2-year-old girl for sale with the simple pitch, "selling a child, will pay for shipping." The spammer also included Manos' phone number in the message. Many of these Live subscribers subsequently called Manos to give her a piece of their mind. There was no mention if any offers were made, but on the bright side, Manos has "a good idea who is responsible." And we're guessing she wasn't referring to herself. [Charlotte Sun via Kotaku] And incidentally, this awesome post art is compliments of Luke Plunkett ...
Tasteless joke lists child for sale on Xbox Live
CrunchGear —
... the ad went live, people started calling the woman, 23-year-old Christa Manos, and complaining. “You monster, how could you sell your child,” etc.
Whoever put that ad online could face criminal charges. Something about the criminal use of information. Clearly I’m no lawyer, though I’d love to be a cop.
People clearly have too much time on their hands when they can concut and execute this type of tasteless prank. Throw the book at ‘em!
via Kotaku
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