If you are a spammer more than likely you have few or no friends. You also will be following this story. James McCalla is going to need more than Viagra pills to keep him up during his restless nights in jail. They charged this idiot $10 per email and that added up to over 11 billion dollars. Austin Powers couldn't pay off this sailors bill.

If this James guy had any friends, it would only be because of how much money he was raking in sending out spam. I bet James own mother and family members got his spam. I bet his family hates him as much as the rest of the world.

I have been looking to get on some tech forums at tek-tips.com, but for some reason the forgot password will not send. So I can not log in to tek tips. I cant be the only one.

And so then I try the mysql forums at mysql.com. When I click the search link a blank page loads.

I dont know if this means mysql.com shut down their search function due to the fact its too much cpu usage or they completely forgot that someone may want to search the forums before posting a question that may have already been answered.

Not only does the search page show up blank but editing my own posts loads a blank page. So updating forum posts is not possible.

I'm sure you have seen advertisements on the internet saying, you have won a free laptop or you have won a free nano Ipod. Or maybe it says get dinner for two free. This is sucker land, trust me. And by sucker land I mean, they are making a sucker out of you.

Most people have heard the saying, if its too good to be true, then it probably is.

What I have done is taken 3 links i have found that are not the same domain name and I want you to see how they are all similar in bs.

Free Laptop - link

Free Dinner for 2 - link

Free Ipod Nano - link

Now check the footers on all of these. You will notice that two are identical and one is a little different.

Read the terms and conditions to these sites. They detail out for you that there is no guarantee that you will receive a prize and you have to complete a certain amount of offers in a certain order to receive your gift, and it may not be the gift you selected. What do you have to do to get the free gift? Below is copied and pasted on the 3 easy steps for you to get your gift:

1. Register for your membership with us using accurate contact info (such as valid email & street address) when requested so we know where to ship your gift. You will not receive your gift if you use false information.

2. You must complete the product offers exactly as indicated on each page. For this promotion, Apple iPod nano, you must complete a total of 6 offers. Be sure to read the directions on each page and follow them precisely. You will be directed as to when you must complete any offer to earn a gift.

For example, the site may say that offers must be completed as follows: "Page 1 - Complete any two (2) offers below to get your gift; Page 2 - complete any two (2) offers below to get your gift". Therefore, if you complete 4 offers from page 1, instead of 2 from each page, you have not correctly completed the program and are not entitled to a gift. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Examples of Advertisers' offers may include free trial offers, credit cards, free quote requests and other free or low-cost offers. Typically, there are a variety of offers presented for your selection - some offers require a small purchase, while others are free trials or free applications which do not require a purchase (and can be canceled without obligation).

To 'Complete' an offer, you must sign up, get approved for and activated (where applicable) for the Advertiser's offer by meeting all conditions and steps stated for the offer. For some credit card offers, the card must be activated by making a purchase, balance transfer or cash advance in order for the offer to be considered 'completed'.

When our Advertisers report to us that you completed their offers, your account will be updated accordingly and should show in the Gift Status section. It will take 4 to 6 weeks before we get confirmation of your offer completion and the Gift Status section reflects this, so please be patient. Be sure to print out and keep the pages showing you have signed up for each offer as you complete it.

3.Check your Gift Status page weekly then print and mail your Gift Redemption Voucher. Be sure to check your status page often so that you know when your Gift Redemption Voucher is available for you to print, complete and mail in for your gift. You must send in your Gift Redemption Voucher within 90 days of it becoming available or your Gift Status will expire and you will not receive your gift. Be sure to keep a copy of your Gift Redemption Voucher. Upon our receipt, it will take 6 to 8 weeks to ship you your gift. Please be patient.

Lets see your chances of getting spammed to death and or snail mailed to death go up 79%. Once you sign away all of your information will be sold to advertisers and 3rd company advertisers and to Martians on the moon.

These banners or links should be avoided at all times. Because you fill out this form today and maybe just maybe in the next 90 to 250 days, you could receive a free gift at the cost of your email inbox and your home postal address.

If you want something for free, go to a store and try to steal it, you have a better chance of getting what you want. You are not going to get something for free from an advertising company.

Yahoo is in the game. The search marketing game. Taking over the practices of overture wasn't the best idea, what they need are some new ideas. The overture interface and functionality simply suck and there is no sure way to stop some campaigns.

When you compare yahoo search marketing to google adwords, there is only one option.

Say you want to advertise your company on line using yahoo, unless you pay yahoo $200 your advertising will not start on their network for at least 3 to 5 days. This is because everything has to be approved by hand.

That's real efficient yahoo, manually go through what could possibly be hundreds of thousands of accounts, and approve them one by one. What is worse about the situation is what if you want to bid on a different keyword or change an existing keyword bid, you will have to wait 3 to 5 days for each request. Its like going back in time and having to email someone updates you want them to put on your website.

If you don't have an adwords account from google, you can sign up for an account and be up and advertising in minutes, not days. You can make changes to everything you do in adwords in real time.

Yahoo is so far behind on this it is a joke. Me and everyone else who has half a brain will not wait weeks at a time to start an advertising campaign.

Advantage Google - Right now if you want to advertise, google is the place. Not only do they like you advertise right now without a crap fee, they also lead the internet in searching and traffic. The volume of traffic google can bring through advertising compared to yahoo is like comparing bill gates to whoever had the idea to keep apple computers going.

Ridiculous is the thought of a website like flowgo.com that says it needs 3 days to process my unsubscription to their spam.

Update: I changed the spelling of rath to wrath. Seems that I cant spell after all.

In three days I could get to California and shoot everyone that is involved with this lame ass sub standard e card service site. Not just three days, but three business days.

So how many places did they send my email address? What could possibly take three days to process? Its only one email address. It is just another line of shit from a useless site. Maybe flowgo doesn' use databases and maybe they have a person to manually go through and remove email addresses from the thousands of shit files they display to the Internet.

Try this out:

I went to the un-subscribe link for flowgo.com (link) to remove myself from receiving all this horse ^(&*^. Where it asks for an email address, make one up, use something random like idrinkbeerallday@flowgo.com and click un-subscribe or just type in a couple of numbers like "234234234" and click un subscribe. Even though its not a real email address or a valid email address format  they still tell you they will process it in 3 business days.

http://www.flowgo.com/us.cfm

Closing Statement:

Stay away from flowgo, they suck, they will spam you and trick you and they don't care. I give flowgo.com two middle fingers up.

Do you want to send a friend an e-card or an email greeting? Dont use flowgo.com or its sister site castlemountains.com. This site is by far the most spamming site I have ever been forced to subscribe to. Unless you want to subscribe to spam and have flowgo.com sell your email address out, do not use flowgo. I am serious.

Someone sent me a birthday card not to long ago. In the email there was a link to an ecard. The first thing i see is a page long ad that has the option to skip. I skip the ad and when I do I am notified that I have successfully joined their news letter.

EXAMPLE Click here

There was another link below the larger text that says, to view your ecard without joining our newsletter click here.

As soon as I subscribed by accident I immediatly unsubscribed to flowgo.com. That has not stopped them from sending me spam and emails I can not unsubscribe to. These idiots have sent this spam out and the link to the un subscribe is broken. What really pisses me off is I unsubscribed from this stupid site more than a week ago and for the past week I get 10 or more spam messages from flowgo.com

Dont think you have to sign up or fill out a form for flowgo to setup an account for you. All you have to do is click one of their tricky links and you will hate yourself for a while. Not only joining a newsletter that is useless as o.j. simpson, you will be spammed and spammed and spammed.

Even if flowgo is in the top 100 most visited sites on the net, its only because of the spamming and automatic mailing list subscribing practices that confuse and take advantage of just about an user.

Pudding Proof.

Flowgo.com is one of those sites that seems decent on the outside, but I wouldnt use flowgo.com to save my middle finger from gang green. Flowgo is bad people and they send you a lot of spam. If someone sends you an e card and its linking to flowgo, stay away. To see what I am talking about visit the link below and check out the form somone has to fill out in order to send an ecard. Pay close attention to the submit button on the form, they are advertiser images. To submit the form you have to click on a banner. FlowGo Sucks Link

Apple should be banned from making software. You know what I think of now when I think of apple, i think of aol. I'm thinking apple and aol have a lot of things in common when it comes to users. And as far as idiots go, why oh why isn't itunes identified as spyware.

On top of the shit that I have to put up with in a days time, removing quicktime and itunes from users pc is becoming more and more accepted as I have explained to our i.t. department that the practices used by apple/quicktime are illegal and bad policy on the part from apple.

Apple can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. QuickTime and itunes are two different programs two totally different functions and I seen no reason to bundle them together and force an install of itunes with hidden background processes that could be sending information to apple.

Not to mention the huge security risks that malicious code is able to exploit in iTunes. The Opanki worm, Opanki.Y worm are both exploits of itunes. So lets not forget that no user has the option to not install itunes when they install quicktime. So apple is basically forcing users to install software that has huge security risks and not even giving the users the option to not install it.

Thanks apple, thanks a lot for absolutely nothing.

I wanted to think of something clever something catchy to get folks to read what I am about to write. I thought of nothing. How spyware started came to me in a moment of thoughts of nothingness. But the information I am about to give to you, could piss a few people off.

I have been creating websites for almost ten years now. And in those ten years I have made a little money from different advertisers throughout. Some have come and gone in the past. But one company that still stands out as a leader and a trend setter, is also responsible for the start of one of the worst known threats to PCs.

Doubleclick. for many years has been labeled the beast of all beasts. If a webmaster wanted to make money with banner revenues, the place he could get the most money per impression was doubleclick.

When I was finally accepted to doubleclicks publisher network I was thrilled. I thought of how much more money I could make and how easy it would be to decide which advertisers banners I would use on my sites.

I was shocked to find out that the web interface to manage my doubleclick account was mediocre to say the least. Every single banner even the duplicates had to be manually viewed for approval. One day while approving and un approving ads, i noticed that nearly every ad that I was viewing for approval wanted me to download something. Instead of this being displayed on the banner, an alert window would pop up and ask me to install something. The more banners I went to approve, the more and more these banners wanted to install.

I emailed doubleclick and asked them why are these advertisements asking me to download? I was told that some of the banners were from software companies that used the banners to install software. I told doubleclick that I did not want to have my website visitors to have to download and install software just visit the site. In order to turn these downloads off I had to send a special request to support requesting so. I got an email back from support stating that if I disabled the banners that installed software my revenue shares would be hurt drastically. So I thought to myself maybe if I install this software, I wont be prompted to download and install it again. I was very wrong. Not only did their software not detect that it was already installed, it would duplicate itself and run multiple instances of the exe that was in the process list.

What this all boils down to is that doubleclick. what was at one time the leader in online marketing, encouraged spyware vendors to use doubleclick as a way to install their spyware. Doubleclick. audience reaches over 85% of the internet users in the world. Doubleclick. showed the world how profitable spyware in banner advertising could be.

Sometime back in the 90's doubleclick. outsourced or sold its publishers part of the business to maxonline. The odd thing about the move was that anyone who is anyone thought that something would be different about the interface and functionality of the publishers management screen. Unfortunately it was the exact same.

Even though doubleclick may seem more popular and corporate, their web based interfaces are weak. And if you compare doubleclick. publishers interface to casalemedia. fastclick. or bluelithium. you will find out that doubleclick is weak, and maxonline is weak.

Words for thought. Just recently I found out that maxonline is now owned by AskJeeves. AskJeeves also owns these spyware infesting companies: MySearch. MyWay. and FunWebProducts.

Final Note.

Doubleclick.net can take most of the blame making spyware profitable. Someone has to pay for advertising their software. That someone is a company. That company leaves a paper trail. Doubleclick and all the other publisher networks know where their money is coming from and who. The problem is that money can keep things secret.

http://www.christiansinglematch.com/ has never stopped spaming my inbox.

Since the spamming started, i have received over 140 spam email messages, even after i un-subscribed to something i never subscribed to. What kind of christian company sends spam? They did not, the christian part is a joke and it is likely run by a child molester.

I ran across a website that has to be the one of the useless sites I've seen advertised.

http://www.theinformationcenter.com/ has the worst site imaginable. This site looks like someone copy and pasted from word into browser. The main thing the site does is sell weird stuff no one has a use for that is legal.

Most of the text is hard to read. The images have borders of the link colors.

They sell documentation about email hacking, hotel hacking(this term sounds made up), how thieves get credit card numbers, how thieves shoplift, make a professional blowgun, airline scams and other nonsense.

Read the ordering policy here.

I mean I like to be pro people but this looks like terrorist knowledge. I'm sure the information isn't all that great but are sites like this allowed to exist?