I will Chuck, I have received these offer over and over again and I keep reporting them as spam to yahoo and little by litte I am getting much less spam now.
Dovey....proud owner of two low riders...Dovey's Doxies...... ]
Well, it seems to me that a good, common sense practice is to NEVER respond to any pop-up, email advertisement, or anything else unsolicited.
I figure that if a company has to resort to what amounts to clandestine manuvers, it can't be completely above board. I might be wrong, but I can't get taken if that's the approach I maintain.
I use Mozilla Firebird for my browser, and it blocks all bad popups, plus you can set up filters to remove most advertisements from websites. I don't see many banner ads, and I especially am happy to avoid those stupid flash animations that block the entire site sometimes.
Been there, done that. Didn't like it either! Not to mention, they placed a bunch of spybots and tracking cookies on my system that I didn't want either!
I use two programs to protect my system from these programs now. "AdSubtract" from Intermute - www.adsubtract.com - and "Spybot-Search and Destroy" which is available from - www.nonags.com ; or www.majorgeeks.com .
AdSubtract is a for sale program, but they do allow a 30 day trial. It's purpose is to eliminate the banner ads and pop-ups that you're talking about. It also allows you to remove any tracking type cookies, among others, left on your system by any site you visit.
Spybot-Search and Destroy is a shareware program designed to eliminate Robot (BOT) programs that run in the background and spy on your every move while on the internet, and when you're off-line they collect information and transmit that the next time you're on the internet. Bots also s l o w down your system while you're surfing the internet because of their constant reporting activities.
There are others out there such as AdAware, and Spyware Blaster, among others, but these are the two I use and they do a great job.
Now I'm not a lawyer, so I would strongly suggest checking this out with a lawyer, but unless there has been some kind of change in federal law in the past two months, there's no law against them doing this. There may be a law in your state that would prohibit this kind of advertisment deception. Check with your state Attorney General's office, or with a lawyer to find out.
You know, this sounds like something TWI could have cooked up, if they hadn't so disbelieved the internet. :)--> :D--> :)-->
To all you who have responded so far, it wasn't e-mail or a popup, it was a banner, which i personally don't find really aggrivating the way a popup or email spam is.
You know, it's one thing to say something like "you could be eligible for a gift certificate, click here for details" Obviously there's probably a catch to something like that. It's another thing to say you actually won a prize and to click to claim it. But I vow not to answer anymore of those lies again.
The best alternative that I have found to selecting 'remove me' from spammers lists is downloading a utility called Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net). Not only does it allow you to block spam, and it does lern as you direct it, but you are able to bounce the spam back to the source (in most cases). That way, they don't see that you are a 'valid email' addy that they can continue hassling. :)-->
My own secret sign-off ====v,
Rational logic cannot have blind faith as one of its foundations.
LOL My mother-in-law has a neat way of dealing with junk mail. Not e-mail but stuff she gets in her mail that comes with a self addressed envelope. She tears thier message up and puts it in the envelope and sends it back to them.
Dovey....proud owner of two low riders...Dovey's Doxies...... ]
LOL My mother-in-law has a neat way of dealing with junk mail. Not e-mail but stuff she gets in her mail that comes with a self addressed envelope. She tears thier message up and puts it in the envelope and sends it back to them.
Dovey....proud owner of two low riders...Dovey's Doxies...... ]
:D-->
BTW, touching up on banner ads, I find there are two kinds: pop-ups and web. It was a web banner that I had responded to. This may be something I have no control over (correct me if I'm wrong) since the banner is shown by permission of the webmaster of the visited page that features it. I'm familiar with such ads, you put an html code in your webpage and it displays those ads. Popups on the other hand are a direct invasion and are indeed aggrievating. I have no use for those kind of ads. The next time I see such an ad as I responded to, I'll complain to the webmaster.
BTW Garth, thanx for the link to mail-washer :)-->
Well, it seems to me that a good, common sense practice is to NEVER respond to any pop-up, email advertisement, or anything else unsolicited.
I figure that if a company has to resort to what amounts to clandestine manuvers, it can't be completely above board. I might be wrong, but I can't get taken if that's the approach I maintain.
Rocks, you are absolutely right on this. I will not do business with companies that act so deceptively.
Oh, and, BTW, someone wise (I think it was Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers) that said that if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Steve, I will say that is virtually true, but not absolutely. There are legitimate organizations that seem to shower gifts on people (Publisher's Clearing House - you know, Ed McMahon and Dick Clark). Are Ed and Dick really dishonest men on the inside? Are they using their names and identities and even their reputations to promote something entirely false? True, I guess that there are a few that do give you an honest free lunch, but I guess they are wrong in that they give tons of fodder to those who do so under false pretense. If it were an absolute truth then I find it hard for anyone to be taken by deception. Another case in point would be "work at home" schemes. Some are honest, but unfortunately most are scams. I think the honest should give up and let a scam be reputable as a scam.
Speaking of the Gift of The Holy Spirit, you have to realize now that God has got a major problem with his good intentions. His enemies have all concocted similar propositions, to which the objective is to trap unsuspecting targets. After all, ONE good God, TRILLIONS of evil ones. Ok, one supreme devil also, but how many cohorts? All of which are being a god! God may be omnipotent, but its of no use if his publicity is waned by trillions of false gods.
Ever play "Find Waldo"? God is Waldo while the evil gods are everyone else! And it's even a more difficult puzzle. Therefore I don't condemn anyone who doesn't believe in God or otherwise questions anything about him.
Ok, I guess I'm getting a little off of my own topic. :)-->
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I will Chuck, I have received these offer over and over again and I keep reporting them as spam to yahoo and little by litte I am getting much less spam now.
Dovey....proud owner of two low riders...Dovey's Doxies...... ]
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Well, it seems to me that a good, common sense practice is to NEVER respond to any pop-up, email advertisement, or anything else unsolicited.
I figure that if a company has to resort to what amounts to clandestine manuvers, it can't be completely above board. I might be wrong, but I can't get taken if that's the approach I maintain.
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I use Mozilla Firebird for my browser, and it blocks all bad popups, plus you can set up filters to remove most advertisements from websites. I don't see many banner ads, and I especially am happy to avoid those stupid flash animations that block the entire site sometimes.
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Been there, done that. Didn't like it either! Not to mention, they placed a bunch of spybots and tracking cookies on my system that I didn't want either!
I use two programs to protect my system from these programs now. "AdSubtract" from Intermute - www.adsubtract.com - and "Spybot-Search and Destroy" which is available from - www.nonags.com ; or www.majorgeeks.com .
AdSubtract is a for sale program, but they do allow a 30 day trial. It's purpose is to eliminate the banner ads and pop-ups that you're talking about. It also allows you to remove any tracking type cookies, among others, left on your system by any site you visit.
Spybot-Search and Destroy is a shareware program designed to eliminate Robot (BOT) programs that run in the background and spy on your every move while on the internet, and when you're off-line they collect information and transmit that the next time you're on the internet. Bots also s l o w down your system while you're surfing the internet because of their constant reporting activities.
There are others out there such as AdAware, and Spyware Blaster, among others, but these are the two I use and they do a great job.
Now I'm not a lawyer, so I would strongly suggest checking this out with a lawyer, but unless there has been some kind of change in federal law in the past two months, there's no law against them doing this. There may be a law in your state that would prohibit this kind of advertisment deception. Check with your state Attorney General's office, or with a lawyer to find out.
You know, this sounds like something TWI could have cooked up, if they hadn't so disbelieved the internet.
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To all you who have responded so far, it wasn't e-mail or a popup, it was a banner, which i personally don't find really aggrivating the way a popup or email spam is.
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You know, it's one thing to say something like "you could be eligible for a gift certificate, click here for details" Obviously there's probably a catch to something like that. It's another thing to say you actually won a prize and to click to claim it. But I vow not to answer anymore of those lies again.
Chuck
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It should also be mentioned...
on most of this spam, there is a "remove me" from list....
DON'T believe it. by going there, you verify your e-mail address. And, they sell your "addy" to some other business.
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The best alternative that I have found to selecting 'remove me' from spammers lists is downloading a utility called Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net). Not only does it allow you to block spam, and it does lern as you direct it, but you are able to bounce the spam back to the source (in most cases). That way, they don't see that you are a 'valid email' addy that they can continue hassling.
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LOL My mother-in-law has a neat way of dealing with junk mail. Not e-mail but stuff she gets in her mail that comes with a self addressed envelope. She tears thier message up and puts it in the envelope and sends it back to them.
Dovey....proud owner of two low riders...Dovey's Doxies...... ]
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The simple solution is not to click on the ad.
Such promises are ALWAYS designed to lure gullible people into buying things they would not otherwise buy.
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Rocks, you are absolutely right on this. I will not do business with companies that act so deceptively.
Oh, and, BTW, someone wise (I think it was Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers) that said that if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Hey, NO ONE is going to GIVE you ANYTHING.
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Steve, I will say that is virtually true, but not absolutely. There are legitimate organizations that seem to shower gifts on people (Publisher's Clearing House - you know, Ed McMahon and Dick Clark). Are Ed and Dick really dishonest men on the inside? Are they using their names and identities and even their reputations to promote something entirely false? True, I guess that there are a few that do give you an honest free lunch, but I guess they are wrong in that they give tons of fodder to those who do so under false pretense. If it were an absolute truth then I find it hard for anyone to be taken by deception. Another case in point would be "work at home" schemes. Some are honest, but unfortunately most are scams. I think the honest should give up and let a scam be reputable as a scam.
Speaking of the Gift of The Holy Spirit, you have to realize now that God has got a major problem with his good intentions. His enemies have all concocted similar propositions, to which the objective is to trap unsuspecting targets. After all, ONE good God, TRILLIONS of evil ones. Ok, one supreme devil also, but how many cohorts? All of which are being a god! God may be omnipotent, but its of no use if his publicity is waned by trillions of false gods.
Ever play "Find Waldo"? God is Waldo while the evil gods are everyone else! And it's even a more difficult puzzle. Therefore I don't condemn anyone who doesn't believe in God or otherwise questions anything about him.
Ok, I guess I'm getting a little off of my own topic.
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Chuck
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