E-Mail Blasting Scams

To follow up on my post regarding pyramid scams there's another relevant point of interest in E-Mail blasters. These work a lot like the free for all ad blasters except now you're supposedly pumping a pile of spam email out to safelists. Fair enough, as long as the safelists are full of opt-in members. Here's where the deceitful opportunism arrives - you can spend a while crafting the perfect sales email you're sure will convert, you punch it in and click send. A page comes back and says your emails been sent to 20-70 million opt-in mailing list members, wow thats awesome, seems almost too quick to be true! It is, your email has gone nowhere, you're out of pocket and you've wasted a couple hours. Please beware of these fraudsters - a good example is blast4traffic.com this idiot claims they've conducted e-mail marketing for Walmart, eBay and other conglomerates - this is untrue. Really check out who you're dealing with before you go handing over cash to conmen. A good link to check out for a list of known bad safelists is http://www.joolrod.com/joolrod/safelists/index.html . Always do a google search like "anyone used company x?" as you'll find a few forum posts giving feedback on the results.