Hi, Everyone,
I can’t resist…. I just got this in my spam box at my gmail account and being a CB affiliate like most of us are, it kind of hit a raw nerve… here’s the whole thing just as I received it in my email first and then I’ll break it down as I *really* see it:
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SPAMMER’s Subject Line: Mass Advertising over 13.5 million ClickBank® affiliates worldwide
Came From: blasterteams@yahoo.com (be sure to add them to your spam list!!!) One good turn deserves another, right? Time: 9:08 PM
Hello,
It has taken us over 2 years to develop this one program and we have pulled out all the stops. We have been able to amass a database of over 13.5 million ClickBank® affiliates worldwide.
These people are fully verified 100% double opt-in and have agreed to receive ads from us . Simply supply us with your ad in 5 easy to understand steps and instantly submit to ClickBank® members the world over.
These are people who buy and sell online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! Who could be better to receive your offers than people who do this for a living! It also comes with a reseller option.
Click Here To Get Instant Access! [Their stinking SPAM URL removed for obvious reasons!]
Regards,
Blasters Team
This email is fully compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. This email is not spam – nor has it been sent to you randomly. It has been sent to you by way of courtesy, and to confirm your entry (and provide you with additional information) to our amazingly simple wealth-building system. You can unsubscribe from receiving any further emails from us at any time, simply by emailing to admin.clickblast@gmail.com.
[NOTE: Any Spammers feel free to spam that email address too! After all, turnabout is fair play - at least that is what I've always heard.]
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Ok, here’s my “take” on their SPAM email (which I did NOT follow their link nor will I ever) but I feel like having a little Granny’s RANT against abominable spam practices:
They wrote:
It has taken us over 2 years to develop this one program and we have pulled out all the stops. We have been able to amass a database of over 13.5 million ClickBank® affiliates worldwide.
Translation: We have been slinking around the web for the past two years trying our best to steal every single Clickbank ID we can find with our sleazy software so we can help you spam ever MORE unsuspecting people with still more garbage and unwanted emails while we make profit selling you this evil tool!
They wrote:
These people are fully verified 100% double opt-in and have agreed to receive ads from us . Simply supply us with your ad in 5 easy to understand steps and instantly submit to ClickBank® members the world over.
Translation: These poor, unsuspecting people have NO idea we plan to use their ill-gotten CB user names to send them a mountain of sh*t they absolutely do NOT want nor will they appreciate, but we’re hoping we can make the offers sound good enough to get a few of them suckered in anyway… even though we know without a doubt that NONE of them would really EVER opt-in to receive still more spam from our garbage spewing servers.
They wrote:
This email is fully compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. This email is not spam – nor has it been sent to you randomly. It has been sent to you by way of courtesy, and to confirm your entry (and provide you with additional information) to our amazingly simple wealth-building system.
Translation: [[Obviously they haven't ever read the CAN-SPAM Act or there would be full physical mailing address, name of company and phone number etc at the bottom of the email - did you see any of that? Nor did I, and we never will... because they are NOT compliant in any way whatsoever.]] So really they are saying look how nice we are, and how compliant we are and I had to LOL about the courtesy sentence… what a crock of crapola!
What it all boils down to is spammers will work their tails off to find more and more and more ways to spam us as long as there are people who OPEN their SPAM emails and click their links and buy their spammed wares.
Please, if you get a spam email and you think you just *have* to open it, don’t click ANY of the links – although even opening it can endanger your inbox by getting you tracked as a ‘sucker who opens them’ with special HTML codes and tracking links. So, then they will share your email with thousands of other spammers (even the nasty nasty ones) so you get still more unwanted email clogging your inbox and wasting your valuable time.
Anything on this planet that you want, can be found via legitimate methods. You NEVER have to open even one single spam email. NOT ONE! You don’t ever have to fall for their BS… they *will* stop once everyone on the planet stops buying from their links. Imagine… a wonderful internet email inbox with NO spam in it… ever again. But… ONLY YOU can make this happen!!!
Ok, Granny is done ranting… and the ONLY reason I opened that email was to read the BS inside and make this post and warn unwary CB affiliates about what’s coming. I did not and will not EVER click a spammer’s link, no matter how appealing they might make it sound.
Without opening ANY of them at all, I mass-delete them all…… WHOOSH! – never even looking at their subject lines. I suggest you do the same. If we all join together and stop opening them – it will eventually come to an end and they will be forced to use their minds for something productive, worthwhile and useful in life. Won’t that be a day to celebrate??
Have a great evening,
Granny
