Anyone have experience with the amount of spam and other ill effects creating by signing up for these free offers? I read the privacy statement on one of the links, and it's pretty clear the provider is an email marketing company who will widely sell your information. (Another link didn't even have a privacy statement.) I've got secondary and tertiary email addresses that I can use, but how big is the problem? Any issues of the info being used beyond spam?
Anyone have experience with the amount of spam and other ill effects creating by signing up for these free offers? I read the privacy statement on one of the links, and it's pretty clear the provider is an email marketing company who will widely sell your information. (Another link didn't even have a privacy statement.) I've got secondary and tertiary email addresses that I can use, but how big is the problem? Any issues of the info being used beyond spam?
Secret #1 about signing up for FREE offers of any kind.
Create a "fake" email address. By fake I mean, one that you will only use to sign up for free offers, sweepstakes and other goodies.
When you enter your personal information for these free offers, change your name slightly. Instead of infinityplusone, enter infinityplusonee. Simple example, sorry, but change one letter of your last or first name. That way when you start receiving snail mail spam you can track that as well.
Once you have signed up for a few of these free offers, you will have to go in to your free email account (hotmail, google, yahoo, etc) and review the spam you are receiving and delete it so it does not fill up and then bounce a perhaps legit "You Have Won!!" email.
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To everyone. You are welcome for the links. I am sure spam e-mail may be involved, but with the example used before, it can be limited in nature and scope.
As for this link. Yeah, I don't know why. It worked the day before I posted it.
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