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Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Your Opinion on this please! (kevin)
Thursday, 24 August 2006, at 10:17 a.m.
> Someone pre registered me...
There's the problem. NOBODY should be able to harvest your address and enter it into an autoresponder system without your permission. The operators of this site claim to have a no-spam policy, and they can track which of their current members did this to you, so I'd send a copy of one of their email to "abuse@ProWealthSolutions.com" and see what they do.
This is the standard M.O. of a gang of Philippine spammers I've chased off of a few systems like this, most recently 167aday which is a downline building club for Juvio.
> and after a couple of days I have 300 or so in
> my downline.
This is what they do. The "downline building" clubs sign folks up for free, but they're not supposed to accept free members who have been entered against their will. Once in the "powerline", new free members end up "under" you, which means you have seniority over them *IF* you upgrade to a paid position. Then you "own" their butts and benefit when and if some percentage of them upgrade.
The twist that a lot of these clubs put in is the artificial deadline. They get some tiny percentage of free members to upgrade. Then they send you, and all the free members who "joined" around the same time (in your case you didn't really join, but were shanghaied) a note saying that 2, 3, 8, or 14 people who were formerly under you have upgraded. And if you FAIL to upgrade yourself by the end of the week/month/fortnight (artificial deadline of their choice) then THEY OWN YOUR BUTT and jump ahead! If you respond to that breathless exhortation and upgrade, then YOU OWN THEIR BUTTS and all the income they ever make will pay some percentage to you. And isn't it better to OWN THEIR BUTT than to have THEM OWN YOUR BUTT?!@?!?!?!?!
Total psychological manipulation, and in some small number of cases, it works.
Since you were shanghaied and didn't join voluntarily, you need to use their unsubscribe link, and also report the issue to their abuse address. If that doesn't work instantly, send copies of their spam to the upstream provider's abuse desk: abuse@rackspace.com and tell them I advised you to do it.
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