Sure, except as every jackass spammer will tell you, this has already been featured in Wired and CNN, among other places.

well, true... for some reason, though, it seems like being featured on the local alarmist news program takes it to a new level.

Yeah, it's done. This is the part of the pyramid where they stop delivering and simply cash in on the people who either get suckered by expensive services or don't revoke their credit card numbers in time.