The Corner In The Middle

So, this morning I decided to open the add that comes up all the time on ______, and according to the email I received to “confirm the account,” the offer is at  http://videogamerewardscentral.com, and when you click on it, you get an email from confirmedconsent.com (the link actually to confirm the account does not work by the way, in fact, none of the links work, they just take you to confirmedconsent.com and it says “invalid link provided…” but please… click to download our bug eliminator cleaning software, lol), which I guess, runs the site and the mailing list that you also apparently (and secretly) join.

The add says:  “get call of duty 2 prestige edition free for completing ___ offers.”  Ok, I checked it out because I already reserved my modern warfare PE several months ago, well before they ran out.  Anyway, I opened the site, it asked for my email.  Ok, so I used my email here at the corner because, well, it’s not my first day on the internet and I didn’t want to make my normal email overflow.  Well, I entered my email, and here is what came to my inbox, 30 seconds later (from 6:52:03 to 6:52:45), all 13 of them:

shop at home, maxpayday advance, directstar tv package, singlesnet, statusnet (mastercard application), SMC (internet marketing), another “sign up gift site”,”  cosmetic surgery, premier credit card application, footwear survey, m&ms survey, the scooter store, and another activate an account gift site.

Just as I suspected, a bunch of spam, not only spam, but in fact, spam for people that probably shouldn’t be using the computer, and probably don’t even have computers to use anyway. According to the spam I listed above, the site thinks I’m an overweight-unattractive-no shoe wearing-shop at home-candy eating-no credit card carrying-individual who needs a scooter.  Well, all I can say is that I’m not, I don’t.  I didn’t get into law school because it’s my first day in the world.  At least I can delete that mail account; I pity the person who clicked on that add and really thought they were going to get a deal on a free game…  Oh the sewage that flows from social networking sites, why do I still love thee?

Update: today is november 8, and as of right now, there are 59 spam messages in my inbox.  Before I signed up for the add, I got literally one a week from a webmaster about advertising my blog.  So, it seems that “videogamerewardscentral.com” is a nasty spam catch and release site.  Interesingly enough, when you sign up, it says at the bottom “we comply with the national spam act…”  but I really don’t see how they possibly could.

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