Paris Hilton’s “friends” are getting spammed.
Several furious sources who are on the list of the heiress’ friends via her MySpace account say they received emails supposedly from Hilton telling them that they’d won an expense-paid trip to meet her. When the “friends” clicked on the e-mail, they were taken to another screen, telling them, “Hurry! Only twenty prizes left.”
They were then forwarded to a series of pop-up messages and questionnaires asking them to buy products and requesting them to supply personal information.
If the “friend” refuses to supply the info, the screen freezes, says one angry source. If however, the information is supplied, a message appears, saying, “Thank you for signing up for our offers, but all the prizes are gone. Your email is now on a spam list and you win nothing!”
“The survey takes forever to fill out!” fumes one source. “I sure hope Paris is treating her best-friend-again Nicole Richie better than her MySpace friends.”
But Hilton’s spokesman assures The Scoop that the heiress had nothing to do with the emails and that someone must have somehow gotten hold of her friends list.
Smith’s tropical dilemmaWill Anna Nicole Smith lose her house in the Bahamas?
The former reality-show star moved there to avoid the media, she claims, but some are saying that she went to the Bahamas to escape U.S. laws which would force her to submit her baby to paternity tests.
Smith has said that her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is the father of her baby girl, but freelance photographer Larry Birkhead, has said the child is his. And last week, a report appeared claiming that the father of the baby might be a well-to-do man of a certain age named Ben Thompson. It turns out that Thompson paid for the house, according to buzz, and a source tells The Scoop that Thompson’s threatening to evict Smith.
“Anna was supposed to pay him back or pay rent,” says the insider. “She got a ton of money selling photos of her with her baby, but so far, she’s not paying rent. Thompson’s totally disgusted by the whole thing. He’s drawing up papers to get her booted out.”
Smith and her rep couldn’t be reached for comment.
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