February 19, 2002
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acrushonyou I received three emails from these folks, saying that somebody had a "crush" on me. I followed the link, and signed into the site to find out who it was. It would not tell me, but asked me to enter email adresses of people I suspected. This sounded fishy to me, so I called my girlfriend. She told me that she had gotten an email today, and entered my three email adresses trying to determined if I had sent it to her! I think this whole thing is just a scam to harvest active email addresses. Should I report this to someone, and if so who?
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There's something I should tell you about Santa Claus, too. You may want to sit down.
posted by ColdChef at 8:45 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by ColdChef at 8:45 AM on February 19, 2002
Looks to me like one of those places that send you annoying emails twice a day for the rest of your life.
Interesting list of links in the pop up window though, from crushes to adult contacts in 10 easy steps.
posted by Spoon at 8:47 AM on February 19, 2002
Interesting list of links in the pop up window though, from crushes to adult contacts in 10 easy steps.
posted by Spoon at 8:47 AM on February 19, 2002
Sounds exactly like CrushLink, the proactive e-mail harvesting scheme. It's a scam.
posted by waxpancake at 8:51 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by waxpancake at 8:51 AM on February 19, 2002
Their Privacy Policy says it all:
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Information provided at the time of submission from a guest who is 13 years of age or over may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by acrushonyou.com and our affiliates or companies that have been prescreened by acrushonyou.com.
In other words, you may not opt out. Muahahahahaha.
posted by ook at 8:52 AM on February 19, 2002
Opting-Out
Information provided at the time of submission from a guest who is 13 years of age or over may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by acrushonyou.com and our affiliates or companies that have been prescreened by acrushonyou.com.
In other words, you may not opt out. Muahahahahaha.
posted by ook at 8:52 AM on February 19, 2002
Nevermind what I was saying about Santa. Go back to bed, Billy.
posted by ColdChef at 8:54 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by ColdChef at 8:54 AM on February 19, 2002
You know, this is a big coincidence because I got an email that said "hot teenager girls want to lick you up!!!" and I clicked on the link and gave them all my info and I still am not getting licked by a hot teenaged girl. So I'm thinking maybe this was a scam.
posted by Outlawyr at 9:06 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by Outlawyr at 9:06 AM on February 19, 2002
On a non-snarky note, I don't think there's anyone you can report this to, as I don't think there are any laws against it. Someone may prove me wrong, though.
posted by ColdChef at 9:06 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by ColdChef at 9:06 AM on February 19, 2002
santa has lymphoma
posted by dong_resin at 9:07 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 9:07 AM on February 19, 2002
Jeez, I just wanted to bring it to everyones attention so they could steer clear. Thanks to my unknowing girlfirend, three of my email accounts will now be receiving spam.
I think this sight is particulalry insidious in the way it tricks users under false pretenses into adding active email addresses of unknowing victims.
posted by alball at 9:25 AM on February 19, 2002
I think this sight is particulalry insidious in the way it tricks users under false pretenses into adding active email addresses of unknowing victims.
posted by alball at 9:25 AM on February 19, 2002
Outlawyr: - I had a similar mail this morning in my work email offering to increase my ejaculate by 600% (?!)
one of the plus point features was that with their "pill" i would be able to "shoot" up to 13 feet, (although they said that results may vary.)
posted by Spoon at 9:28 AM on February 19, 2002
one of the plus point features was that with their "pill" i would be able to "shoot" up to 13 feet, (although they said that results may vary.)
posted by Spoon at 9:28 AM on February 19, 2002
That's odd, I just got an email from aSpermOnYou.com saying that somebody wanted to shoot up to 13 feet of ejaculate on me. I followed the link, and signed into the site to find out who it was. It would not tell me, but asked me to enter email addresses of people I suspected, as well as my social security number, credit card numbers, mother's maiden name, and bank account numbers. This sounded fishy to me, but I did it anyway. Now I think this whole thing is just a scam to harvest ejaculate. Should I report this to someone, and if so who?
posted by Outlawyr at 9:33 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by Outlawyr at 9:33 AM on February 19, 2002
Outlawyr: It was no scam. I'm not saying that I know for sure who signed you up, I'm just saying that he may or may not be Portugese.
posted by ColdChef at 9:36 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by ColdChef at 9:36 AM on February 19, 2002
I got one that said someone has sent you a egreeting. All it wanted was email addys of three people. I think someone is playing tricks or going though the profiles.
posted by bjgeiger at 9:54 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by bjgeiger at 9:54 AM on February 19, 2002
Spoon, I got that one too. Visions of Scary Movie danced in my head.
posted by SpecialK at 9:56 AM on February 19, 2002
posted by SpecialK at 9:56 AM on February 19, 2002
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Don't feed the animals.
posted by howa2396 at 8:45 AM on February 19, 2002