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Hey, that's an actual Pascal's Mugging! As opposed to "Pascal's generous offer that at worst can be refused for no negative consequences beyond the time spent listening to it". Come to think of it, we probably should be using "Pascal's Spam" for the exciting yet implausible offer.
Yeah, if we're going to bastardize the terms anyway, we should definitely distinguish Pascal's Spamming from Pascal's Mugging, where Spamming is any Mugging of a type that has a thousand easily generated variants without loss of plausibility ('plausibility' to a reasonable non-troll not committing the noncentral fallacy). (For emotional purposes, not decision-theory purposes.)