Fw: B.A.S.T.A.A.R.D.S. (Website award scam)

From: Preacher (preacher@carolina.rr.com)
Date: Sun Dec 05 1999 - 07:22:49 EST


I wrote back to the award people..... here is thier response! Just a little
FYI....

Preacher
99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
http://www.bastaards.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Hatton <mail@buzzez.co.uk>
To: Preacher <preacher@carolina.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: B.A.S.T.A.A.R.D.S.

> > I am sorry to say that initially I was taken in by this scam. Then, in
> > discussion with other members of the various webrings I belong to, I
found
> > that this is simply Spam. This is just a note to say that we will be
filing
> > a formal complaint with your service provider.
> >
> > After all, how many #74 awards have you given away?
>
>
> Preacher,
>
> This is not spam! We are genuinely handing out awards to worthy
> websites, and kindly providing links to them also. Check out *REAL*
> websites which we have linked to in the past few weeks at
> http://www.buzzez.co.uk/b/index.htm
>
> It seems that a number of people are under the impression that we are
> spamming them - and worse - seem to be spreading the word perhaps with
> malicious intent.
>
> With regards to the dupliacte 'website' ID numbers, it seems that this
> misunderstanding has been caused by our friend Peter, who incorrectly
> described the '74' number as a website number, and not a batch number.
> You wouldn't believe the amount of e-mails we have had in reply to
> this... ...if we really wanted to spam you we would have included a
> RANDOM number with each e-mail.
>
> Anyway, with regards to votes, we actually count your referring URL's at
> the server level.
>
> We can link from OUR site to YOURS if you fill in the on-line form
> accessible from http://www.buzzez.co.uk/a/index.htm
>
> This will add your site to the queue, and in turn give you a link in our
> Award Winning Websites directory. This is only available to individuals
> with an award on their site which is linked to us, though.
>
> I hope you can see us as a genuine company, and not like others that
> harass individuals so often on the Internet these days.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
> Jules
> -----------------
> BuzzeZ! Website
> jules@buzzez.co.uk
>
>



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