Comments on: Should You “ContactThem”? A Tempting Scam…

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:38:37 +0000

“People will believe a lie because they want to or because they are afraid it might be true.”

There are many scams out there. And everyones deffinition of what a scam is, is different based on there attitude and choices in the past.

If Contact Them has a viable product and actually pays for what work you do when they say they will pay you then it is not a scam.

Most of the damn ads on websites say free ipod or xbox or whatever and then require you to fill out 50,000 different “surveys” and whatever else thats my deffinition of a scam.

Now obviously if we got contacted with correct information that they shouldnt be able to get without looking on whois and everything else like that which in order to build an email list of any meaningful length is highly inefficient if done manually, then there product is viable.

I got an email from them for a page on youtube!

Read more about there product. It is software that scans websites for there publicly accesible information and compiles it into a contact list. Now if you are working there business you want to target people who would benefit from being able to pull contact information from anywhere on the web or to advertise there business or NPO or even themselves.

You can etiher make money or make excuses but not both.

By: Rick Jamison

Rick Jamison — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:02:34 +0000

Great discussion. I always enjoy revisiting here. Always learn something

By: Seedboxes

Seedboxes — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:11:32 +0000

If it sounds to good to be true it normally is a scam.

By: BDR

BDR — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:24:53 +0000

I just got one of these emails! Thanks so much for confirming my suspicions that $4,800 dollars is way too good to be true!

By: certificate of trust

certificate of trust — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:31:17 +0000

well i guess it is a scam, i would appreciate more information about it before coming to any conlusion. And if its no scam its fantastic. Please let us know

By: Jony

Jony — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:46:07 +0000

Sounds very tempting, what do you think im being too gaulible could this be a scam?
I just got this from one of my page,he left his phone number on the bottom too and altrnetive email i could use 30% of 5.5 million lol but BIG SCAM YES OR NO??I didnt put it n coz im suppose to be a trustworthy person…!!

By: Sonia

Sonia — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:26:25 +0000

I got one of these emails today and was really excited thinking this was it! Thought I’d hunt around first, THANK YOU SO MUCH, I nearly fall for this awful scam.

Grateful for the warning
Sonia

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By: MicrosoftVideos Fan

MicrosoftVideos Fan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:00:04 +0000

I found the same in emails many times. I was looking to see if it is even more common now since I got one per every 10 pages on my site. It is getting really bad on spam. Also be careful in scam busting if you read the news on http://www.zolaenterprises.com you can find out how a scam buster got in trouble for busting a politicians known scam companies.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:47:12 +0000

I too received one of these emails today. I went to the website, entered my information and was just about to hit “submit” when I realized the page was not secured (https) and yet it was asking for my SS#! That was enough to send up the red flag.

Thanks for saving me many headaches.

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By: Wilson

Wilson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:07:36 +0000

I got of these emails too! Thanks Lynn for the info. I deleted the email.

By: Paul Schlegel

Paul Schlegel — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:12:39 +0000

Docs,

Have you considered getting quantified at Quantcast? There are several advantages of doing that not the least of which is that they seem to be most accurate rankings site right now.

But also, they are specifically set up to allow other sites to search for places to advertised based on various criteria, including site affinity (you put in your url and it will list and rank other sties it believes to have close affinity with yours).

Then it seems Compete is the next most accurate, and then Alexa.

I know Alexa keeps claiming that their fixing their algorithm, but so far I haven’t seen much evidence of it. They still seem to be subject to artificial ranking inflation or at least don’t seem to the TrafficExchange type traffic whereas somehow (I don’t know how) QuantCast seems to be able to do that.

As for ContactThem. What’s not to love?

I can make money receiving spam! Every spam I receive from the ContactThem network has the potential to generate “up to” $4,800/month (I think ZERO) qualifies in that equation.

Paul Schlegel
http://www.workathometruth.com/ContactThem-Spam-Income-Calculator.php

By: ChaCha Fance

ChaCha Fance — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:14:57 +0000

Thank you SO much! I was almost tricked into joining this but of course I wasn’t going to join without doing some research first. Your post explained it best & I will NOT be joining! Have a great day.

By: Jonas Joseph

Jonas Joseph — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:54:10 +0000

Just got the same mail today…lucky for me i do research before join anything online, My research ended up here..Thanks Lynn for the info.