That's right, I have caught this guy spamming, he tried to make it look like he went through my contact page, WRONG, I have security and identification tags which also get sent through with any email that comes through on my contact page. I am in contact with Cynthia about this to find out how he bypassed them and I am in the process of checking my logs.

Hello,

I got the same email. I think he sent it to all PTR WM with the CC script.

Brent

I received the same eMail on both of my sites as well. Let me know what happens, please.

Thanks.

Cathy

Also, if you wish to complain about this guy spamming, send reports to these two email addresses:

abuse(at)ev1.net and abuse(at)savvis.net


I also ask if any other WMs received this email, can you please post it up on here, include the headers. I'm suspecting he has mass spammed it and if he has then he will be in all sorts of trouble. I have also reported him to the FTC



Ok, dont need any more WMs to post their emails, think we have enough

Im also owner of CC script and received the same email. Great you sent it to abuse and its a strange way to bring customers...

It is a strange way... This sort of thing you dont do when running a business, quickest way of infact loosing customers.

Yep. I got it too:




Return-Path: <info@createyourgetpaid.com>
Delivered-To: support@(remove)juliemail.us
Received: (qmail 82384 invoked by uid 398); 8 Jul 2004 20:50:41 -0000
Date: 8 Jul 2004 20:50:41 -0000
Message-ID: <20040708205041.82383.qmail@mail.crnc.net>
To: support@(remove)juliemail.us
Subject: Special Offer
From: "info" <info@createyourgetpaid.com>
Reply-To: info@createyourgetpaid.com
X-Mailer: Cash Crusader
X-Priority: 3


name: Create Your GetPaid

username: -

bquestion_type: Special offer for juliemail.us

message_type: Be prepared, the new standard in the Get Paid industry has arrived!



All current CashCrusader users: recieve 50% (!) discount when you convert to Create Your GetPaid now!

That's right, this is the moment to take action and take your site to the next level.



With the release of version 7 of Create Your GetPaid we rewrote the complete code to take everything one big leap forward.

More control, enhanced functions, better handling and fine-tuned database functionality.



Let us give you some examples to compare with the options you are used to with your current script:



-Create Your GetPaid introduces a completely new feature for GetPaid programs: the extensible referral link.

When you have real downline builders in your program, they would love to see where most referrals came from. From which promotion, from which website etc. They can now with the extensible referral link.



-Create Your GetPaid's e-mail manager supports an easy, user friendly WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.



-All tables now have both ascending and descending sorting, table columns can now be added and/or removed, the contents of the table can be exported to a SQL, CSV or (tab delimited) plain text file, it's possible to use multiple advanced search functions.

Mass-selection can be used (for example to validate a large group of paid signups at once) and much more!



-Keep your current design and lay-out!



-Complete countries/regions database for both members and advertisers. When someone selects a country, Create Your GetPaid will automatically display the region (states or provinces) that belong to the selected country.



-Improved error handling



-We introduce an advanced new FAQ system. It can display the most frequently asked questions, questions sorted by category and has an advanced search function (boolean mode) with support for search-operators.



-Enhanced webiste statistics like hourly statistics to keep track of the peaks in the amount of visitors to your site.



-All generated backups are fully compatible with phpMyAdmin. So if you site is offline, you can always restore the backups in phpMyAdmin (or a sortlike program). Because of the big size of the backups for some programs, it does now also support GZip compression (if your server supports this). This can bring the size of a 150MB database back to 20MB! If you want to store your database backups on another server, you can also let Create Your GetPaid upload it to any FTP server you want.



The complete billing system has been rewritten and replaced with an advanced invoice system, which supports both single payments and recurrent billing. An invoice can now also contain multiple orders and order quantities. When invoices are unpaid after 14 days, it will automatically resend the invoice. When invoices are still unpaid after 28 days, it will be automatically deleted.



On top of all that, Create Your GetPaid's advertiser "shop" comes with a full-featured shopping cart system and dynamical check-out page. When products are added to the shopping cart, the ad information for that product type can be directly entered for later use in the new "pending ads" page in the administration.

Advertiser accounts have been seperated from the member accounts.



Finally, why buy all sorts of plug-ins when you can buy them in one buy while they are all included in the Create Your GetPaid script itself? The choice is yours.



You will receive 50% (!) discount on your total order including installation, conversion and add-ons (when ordered).

This is a limited time offer which you almost can't refuse.



Your personal coupon ID to receive the 50% discount on an owned license is #61701275



Discover the power of Create Your GetPaid yourself!



Order now!



www.createyourgetpaid.com

I also received this but I trashed it right away but I do know that this did not go through my contact page

he says it was not spam
http://www.getpaidforum.com/forums/index.p...howtopic=200466

Hello,

He sent it to me as well. It didn't come through my contact page either, even though it looks like it. My contact mail includes ip addresses when it comes to me.

Here are the headers:

Return-path: <info@createyourgetpaid.com>
Envelope-to: support@411buzz.com
Delivery-date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:53:12 -0500
Received: from nobody by venus.xtrion25.com with local (Exim 4.34)
id 1BiexE-0006FR-Nl
for support@411buzz.com; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:53:12 -0500
To: support@411buzz.com
Subject: Special Offer
From: "info" <info@createyourgetpaid.com>
Reply-To: info@createyourgetpaid.com
X-Mailer: Cash Crusader
X-Priority: 3
Message-Id: <E1BiexE-0006FR-Nl@venus.xtrion25.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:53:12 -0500

Copy of email:

name: Create Your GetPaid

username: -

bquestion_type: Special offer for $host

message_type: Be prepared, the new standard in the Get Paid industry has arrived!

All current CashCrusader users: recieve 50% (!) discount when you convert to Create Your GetPaid now!
That's right, this is the moment to take action and take your site to the next level.

With the release of version 7 of Create Your GetPaid we rewrote the complete code to take everything one big leap forward.
More control, enhanced functions, better handling and fine-tuned database functionality.

Let us give you some examples to compare with the options you are used to with your current script:

-Create Your GetPaid introduces a completely new feature for GetPaid programs: the extensible referral link.
When you have real downline builders in your program, they would love to see where most referrals came from. From which promotion, from which website etc. They can now with the extensible referral link.

-Create Your GetPaid's e-mail manager supports an easy, user friendly WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

-All tables now have both ascending and descending sorting, table columns can now be added and/or removed, the contents of the table can be exported to a SQL, CSV or (tab delimited) plain text file, it's possible to use multiple advanced search functions.
Mass-selection can be used (for example to validate a large group of paid signups at once) and much more!

-Keep your current design and lay-out!

-Complete countries/regions database for both members and advertisers. When someone selects a country, Create Your GetPaid will automatically display the region (states or provinces) that belong to the selected country.

-Improved error handling

-We introduce an advanced new FAQ system. It can display the most frequently asked questions, questions sorted by category and has an advanced search function (boolean mode) with support for search-operators.

-Enhanced webiste statistics like hourly statistics to keep track of the peaks in the amount of visitors to your site.

-All generated backups are fully compatible with phpMyAdmin. So if you site is offline, you can always restore the backups in phpMyAdmin (or a sortlike program). Because of the big size of the backups for some programs, it does now also support GZip compression (if your server supports this). This can bring the size of a 150MB database back to 20MB! If you want to store your database backups on another server, you can also let Create Your GetPaid upload it to any FTP server you want.

The complete billing system has been rewritten and replaced with an advanced invoice system, which supports both single payments and recurrent billing. An invoice can now also contain multiple orders and order quantities. When invoices are unpaid after 14 days, it will automatically resend the invoice. When invoices are still unpaid after 28 days, it will be automatically deleted.

On top of all that, Create Your GetPaid's advertiser "shop" comes with a full-featured shopping cart system and dynamical check-out page. When products are added to the shopping cart, the ad information for that product type can be directly entered for later use in the new "pending ads" page in the administration.
Advertiser accounts have been seperated from the member accounts.

Finally, why buy all sorts of plug-ins when you can buy them in one buy while they are all included in the Create Your GetPaid script itself? The choice is yours.

You will receive 50% (!) discount on your total order including installation, conversion and add-ons (when ordered).
This is a limited time offer which you almost can't refuse.

Your personal coupon ID to receive the 50% discount on an owned license is #6356638

Discover the power of Create Your GetPaid yourself!

Order now!

www.createyourgetpaid.com

isnt it send to program admin contact emails? It looks like offer for CC script users, you dont like, you just ignore.. if someone send various offers 2x or more, I would call it spam.
(sorry if i dont understand something, dont get me wrong, I hate spam)

Well, he's realising his mistake now. Then he tries and says we are ruining him. He did it himself the moment he started contacting CC site owners.

i did not receive it yet!!
does that mean something wrong with my mail server?

Secret Squirrel, actually I don't come on GPF very often, just once a week at most, mainly for topics about cygp. I also now understand that what I did was wrong. When I knew that before I did this, ofcourse I wouldn't have done it, never!

I did use a script to fill-out contact form, which was also wrong, I'm not afraid to admit what I did, but the only thing is that I didn't knew that this was not possible. The way to opt-out, well, you weren't really opt-in at first. So if you wouldn't want to receive it anymore, you could just send an email back telling me and I wouldn't. Also it was stupid that i didn't note that in the message itself.

I think I learned my lesson now and you can trust me that I won't do this again, NEVER!

So I'm not asking anyone to forget it, just to forgive.

I only got it once - my other programme feels all left out

I really never thought much of it but now; This is really shady

I for one would not want to do business with someone that would have such a gross lapse of judgement.

Sorry or not...

They Spammed me to


name: Create Your GetPaid

username: -

bquestion_type: Special offer for getptc.com

message_type: Be prepared, the new standard in the Get Paid industry has arrived!

All current CashCrusader users: recieve 50% (!) discount when you convert to Create Your GetPaid now!
That's right, this is the moment to take action and take your site to the next level.

With the release of version 7 of Create Your GetPaid we rewrote the complete code to take everything one big leap forward.
More control, enhanced functions, better handling and fine-tuned database functionality.

Let us give you some examples to compare with the options you are used to with your current script:

-Create Your GetPaid introduces a completely new feature for GetPaid programs: the extensible referral link.
When you have real downline builders in your program, they would love to see where most referrals came from. From which promotion, from which website etc. They can now with the extensible referral link.

-Create Your GetPaid's e-mail manager supports an easy, user friendly WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

-All tables now have both ascending and descending sorting, table columns can now be added and/or removed, the contents of the table can be exported to a SQL, CSV or (tab delimited) plain text file, it's possible to use multiple advanced search functions.
Mass-selection can be used (for example to validate a large group of paid signups at once) and much more!

-Keep your current design and lay-out!

-Complete countries/regions database for both members and advertisers. When someone selects a country, Create Your GetPaid will automatically display the region (states or provinces) that belong to the selected country.

-Improved error handling

-We introduce an advanced new FAQ system. It can display the most frequently asked questions, questions sorted by category and has an advanced search function (boolean mode) with support for search-operators.

-Enhanced webiste statistics like hourly statistics to keep track of the peaks in the amount of visitors to your site.

-All generated backups are fully compatible with phpMyAdmin. So if you site is offline, you can always restore the backups in phpMyAdmin (or a sortlike program). Because of the big size of the backups for some programs, it does now also support GZip compression (if your server supports this). This can bring the size of a 150MB database back to 20MB! If you want to store your database backups on another server, you can also let Create Your GetPaid upload it to any FTP server you want.

The complete billing system has been rewritten and replaced with an advanced invoice system, which supports both single payments and recurrent billing. An invoice can now also contain multiple orders and order quantities. When invoices are unpaid after 14 days, it will automatically resend the invoice. When invoices are still unpaid after 28 days, it will be automatically deleted.

On top of all that, Create Your GetPaid's advertiser "shop" comes with a full-featured shopping cart system and dynamical check-out page. When products are added to the shopping cart, the ad information for that product type can be directly entered for later use in the new "pending ads" page in the administration.
Advertiser accounts have been seperated from the member accounts.

Finally, why buy all sorts of plug-ins when you can buy them in one buy while they are all included in the Create Your GetPaid script itself? The choice is yours.

You will receive 50% (!) discount on your total order including installation, conversion and add-ons (when ordered).
This is a limited time offer which you almost can't refuse.

Your personal coupon ID to receive the 50% discount on an owned license is #64620020

Discover the power of Create Your GetPaid yourself!

Order now!

Link Edited
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I responded with my opinion which is CC is best and well I dont like the others, thats why I chose cc you know lol this was there response


Dear Sir/Madam,

It was only an offer. If you don't want it, that's ok. We will not send you
any other e-mails again..

Sincerely,

Tim Steneker
CreateYourGetPaid.com


I said it was still spam and I was notifying CC

Denies its spam lol right

Dear Sir/Madam,

Spam is sent automatically in large amount to many e-mail addresses.
What we did was contacting owners through a contact form manually.

I don't think that's exactly the same..

Sincerely,


Dear Shannon,

John already heard of this, so there's no need to.

If you consider this as spam, we're sorry and didn't meant to.

And we will not bother you again.

Again, we're sorry for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,




I hate spam it uses up my mail box this is BS shouldnt we look up there who is info and cant we find out there host and/or ISP some how and report them for spam You may not think its spam but its very clearly unasked for and unwanted junk mail.

What a scumbag, I also got it... And there's another thing I noticed, the actual subject of the email was "Special Offer", but if you look at the bquestion_type (which is the subject) it says "Special offer for cashemail4me.com" That leads me to believe that this was NOT sent through the contact page at all.

I also think that this blatant attempt to take business away from John is disgusting. Just thought I'd add that.

I got the same email........actually, i keep getting this kind of spam emails everyday & wondering why is there anyway we can be protected maybe John can think of a way?

I got the same thing and he did not go through my contact page either. I trashed the email, but reading how he went about all this ticks me off royally.

here too...

Got it on all 3 of my sites.

I do not know this person.
I did not request this information
The mailing does not include an opt out link
The mailing doesn't comply with spam act.

This is spam

I have sent all 3 mails to spam cop.

Nothing but SPAM!

And who in their right mind would convert from CC to those scripts??

I got it too.

But I'm afraid I don't believe for a second that he didn't know what he was doing was a form of SPAM, He just thought he'd get away with it.

Spam, is defined as Unsolicited, Commercial Email.
This qualifies as all three. And it's also a mass/bulk email, which some people think is another criteria for SPAM.

I also agree it's an extremely underhanded way to do business - if your product is any good, you shouldn't really need to pay people to use it.