Article: THAT FREE IPOD WON'T COME EASY

Have you gotten your free iPod yet? Me neither.

I almost did last week, after visiting an Internet site that promised a free music player. Instead, I ended up paying $15 for a music club subscription, $10 for some DVD rentals, and $6 for a bottle of diet pills. If only I'd paid another $50 for human growth hormone or for a Viagra substitute, I might be listening to music on a new iPod right now.

But I'm already big enough. I refused to pay and my chance for a high-tech freebie dwindled away, along with about $30 hard-earned dollars.

Go ahead, laugh. Those free-iPod ads splashed all over the Internet are such obvious scams that no sixth-grader ought to fall for them. Except they aren't all ...

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