Should You “ContactThem”? A Tempting Scam…

There is a rash of emails going around, and you may have seen one of these in your own Inbox. It goes something like this…

Subject: I’ve visited your website [website URL]

Hi,

We’ve seen your website at [website URL] and we love it!

We see that your traffic rank is 61113
and your link popularity is 162.
Also, you have been online since 4/20/2004.

With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month to advertise our links on your website.

If you’re interested, read our terms from this page:
[ContactThem.com - Affiliate Program]

Sincerely,

Tony Gagliardi
The ContactThem Network

Another example...

Hi,

We've seen your website at [website URL] and we love it!

We see that your traffic rank is 118214
and your link popularity is 164.
Also, you have been online since 04/07/2000.

With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month to advertise our links on your website.

If you're interested, read our terms from this page:
[ContactThem.com - Affiliate Program]

Sincerely,

Peter Kowalchuk
The ContactThem Network

After having received a large number of these emails, all referencing different sites or specific pages on my sites, and all from different senders in “The ContactThem Network” with different referral links, I decided to check into it…

When you click on one of their referral links an audio begins and reads the content to you. Its very convincing and compelling - but gives you that “too good to be true” sense.

It didnt take much digging to find the name behind the network: Stephan Ducharme. Ring a bell? You may remember him as as “The FreeAdGuru”.

Ducharme is selling the ContactThem software which extracts details out of databases and allows you to do a mass mailing with all of that personalized information. In fact, if you’ve received an email like the one quoted above, that’s exactly why you got it - one of Ducharme’s affiliates extracted YOUR details out of a database and spammed you with their ContactThem affiliate link…

While it sounds like they are going to pay you “up to $4,800/month” to display links on your website or blog - which sounds like an offer for text link or banner advertising - they are actually trying to recruit you into the multi-tier affiliate program.

Basically you are being spammed, with a request to join the band of spammers.


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Should You “ContactThem”? A Tempting Scam…

Another scam below being mailed out heavily

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Hi Dear,



With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this

day of a tragic death of His Royal Highness Sultan Maccido, the

SULTAN OF SOKOTO, the foremost traditional ruler in Nigeria in the ADC

plane crash on the 29thof October 2006,



For more information about the crash go to


I was his personal Lawyer before his death, right

Now I have a very important information concerning a huge amount of money worth (twenty five millions dollars) US$25,000,000 which he deposited

In a security company be precise in order to finance his sons presidential ambitions come

2007, unfortunately his son also died in the same ill-fated air crash.



Right now, nobody else know of this deposit apart from me, I have with me

all the information regarding the deposit of the box, hence I will provide them to you once you notify me of your willingness to work with me.





secretly reached you about this money and how you will work with me in getting this funds transferred to any nominated account of your choice which you deem fit to carry the above mentioned amount.



What I want you to do is provide me with your full names and company

name and address and direct telephone and fax numbers so that we can procure all the necessary documents that will facilitate the release of the funds to your account. I have plans of investing my share of the funds into shares and real estate business abroad. I have decided to give you 30%,10% for any expenses incur in the course

of this transaction of the total funds at the successful conclusion of this project, note

however that this percentage is subject to negotiation by you.



Reply via-Email:

macphillips@live.com



Anticipating to hear from you.



Mac Philips.

[olive]

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