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We were contacted today by a Columbia student that spent his entire summer at what he thought was an internship for Concerned Citizens for Change. The entire story is pretty convoluted and hard to follow simply because it’s hard to believe that the CCC is just another fictitional product by the e-publication Pocket Change for yet another fucking viral marketing campaign.

It seems that the attention deprived whores over at Pocket Change have resurrected their favorite fititional character Richard Nouveau to dupe college students and politicians in a summer long viral marketing campaign.

Gawker put up a pretty inclusive list of why you should fucking hate Urban Hostess and Pocket Change for trying to peddle their viral bullshit on everyone for a second time.

Here are a few more.

• Urban Hostess put up fake ads at Columbia University (and presumably NYU as well as others) asking for summer interns to volunteer for Concerned Citizens for Change to help fight an evil, power hungry media baron and real estate developer. Unbeknownst to the students signing up he was also a fictitious one.

• The same day we spoke via email to the probably fictional Rose Goldstein and gave her our email address to contact us, we were added to Pocket Change’s mailing list. Making it fairly clear that CCC is Pocket Change’s newest scheme to bulk up their junk mailing list.

• Everyone who volunteered was told to show up for weekly meetings at 445 Park Avenue on 9th Floor. This also happens to be the address listed on Pocket Change’s junk emails they send out. Our contact who asked not to be identified mostly out of embarrasment of being duped for the entire summer said that there meetings on the ninth floor of 445 Park Ave. were held in what amounted to barely more than a kitchen.

• Our source is now having trouble getting his intern credits verified because they usually don’t hand out summer intern credits for participating in a viral marketing campaign. He’s also having an issue with the fact that he woke up at 5am to post flyers for a viral marketing campaign.

• CCC/Pocket Change has spent the summer petitioning local politicians to act on behalf of their fictitious cause. Don’t our politicians have better things to do than to take part in a viral marketing scheme? Do our politicians have a response to the fact that they were intentionally duped and lied to for publicity?

Can viral marketers die fast enough? Squash this campaign now!

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