Advertisers on TL Abusing Privacy

[Ingot54 13]

Just a heads up on what I think is a rogue advertiser on Traders Laboratory.

 

My email box has been spam-free for about 4 weeks. Tonight I clicked through the advert pictured below, and entered my first name and email address in order to reach a download link for a free eBook ... standard stuff.

 

However, within 6 hours I have received 4 spam emails. It is too coincidental.

 

I am posting the particular email subject lines below, in case others have been spammed by exactly the same people, following clicking on the same advert. I have reported the issue to Google Ads.

 

These are the email subjects:

 

1) PIPNOCULAR ... First Forex Robot That Makes Millions from $250

2) I Love Hardware.info ... Your Computer Repair Giving You Headaches?

3) ach@nacha. org ... ACH transaction canceled

4) Rebecca Russell ... Re: Career Finders

 

Needless to say I did not click on anything within the body of these emails, nor did I attempt to unsubscribe - another way they know they have a "live" email address.

 

If anyone who clicked on the advertisement below has also been spammed by these same people, then we may have a case to prosecute the company who is abusing the email Privacy Act (or not!!)

 

Cheers

 

Ingot

[NeoTrader 10]

Might I suggest using online temporary e-mail address services when requesting "free" e-books and the like. There are serveral free ones on the net. Much better way to keep your inbox spam free than suing "the man"

 

[Ingot54 13]

Might I suggest using online temporary e-mail address services when requesting "free" e-books and the like. There are serveral free ones on the net. Much better way to keep your inbox spam free than suing "the man"

 

 

Cheers Neo

 

The idea of "suing" was more a way to shut it down and expose the scam. I doubt an individual or even a group of individuals could accomplish a successful law suite.

 

I actually have a "silent" email address just for this purpose - that's how I know the spammer is connected to the advert. There is no spam ... suddenly after the connection to the advert, there is spam!

 

In Australia over the past 3 years there have been about 4 cases where spammers were fined over $2 million!

 

We take our spam seriously down here!

 

:rofl::rofl:

 

Thank you for the reply, and the suggestion though - appreciated.