These losers just don't give up. Someone is sitting in front of a computer literally every hour to post this crap. This time they try to spam as a Facebook group which leads to a promotion for their website, instead of the URL to their site.
*yawn*
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
balls in your court online dating SPAM
These losers just don't give up. Someone is sitting in front of a computer literally every hour to post this crap. This time they try to spam as a Facebook group which leads to a promotion for their website, instead of the URL to their site.
*yawn*
Dare to compare dating sites
If you're looking for a QUALITY free dating site, with THOUSANDS of women and men, visit www.plentyoffish.com
They do not spam to advertise their site, the message forum is just rocking with great topics and you're almost guaranteed to find a few hundred people in any given city. No credit card, free membership.
Or you can visit ballsinyourcourt.com which resorts to spamming daily. Their message forums are DEAD and you're lucky to find even three people from the same city as yourself. It's free but it's also a waste of time. Don't support anyone who would flood the internet with SPAM for their dating site.
Also, the photos of women used are FAKE. You can scroll on down and see screenshots of BIYC using the same photos to represent different women. The women on their website also contain many fake profiles, allegedly set up by the creator of the site.
Avoid the later site, give POF a visit for sure.
They do not spam to advertise their site, the message forum is just rocking with great topics and you're almost guaranteed to find a few hundred people in any given city. No credit card, free membership.
Or you can visit ballsinyourcourt.com which resorts to spamming daily. Their message forums are DEAD and you're lucky to find even three people from the same city as yourself. It's free but it's also a waste of time. Don't support anyone who would flood the internet with SPAM for their dating site.
Also, the photos of women used are FAKE. You can scroll on down and see screenshots of BIYC using the same photos to represent different women. The women on their website also contain many fake profiles, allegedly set up by the creator of the site.
Avoid the later site, give POF a visit for sure.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Who is "Wendy"
Here is a photo of "Wendy" the self-professed CEO of BIYC.
BIYC is, of course, the website mentioned in DAILY spam floods. This spam is occuring on Facebook, in at least fifteen different city networks each day. Sad but
true, they are doing it manually with individual accounts. What a life.
Please consider writing or phoning:
Loki Salon (c/o Catherine Moreau)
33 Hazelton Avenue
Toronto, Ontario.
Phone: +1 416 961 3600
to ask her why her business is sponsoring a contest held by BIYC in which a hair makeover is given to a prizewinner. The eligibility criteria? You have to get all your friends to join as new members to BYIC. Cha-ching!
Also e-mail abuse at canadawebhosting.com which hosts BIYC.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/activism/media-activism
BIYC is, of course, the website mentioned in DAILY spam floods. This spam is occuring on Facebook, in at least fifteen different city networks each day. Sad but
true, they are doing it manually with individual accounts. What a life.
Please consider writing or phoning:
Loki Salon (c/o Catherine Moreau)
33 Hazelton Avenue
Toronto, Ontario.
Phone: +1 416 961 3600
to ask her why her business is sponsoring a contest held by BIYC in which a hair makeover is given to a prizewinner. The eligibility criteria? You have to get all your friends to join as new members to BYIC. Cha-ching!
Also e-mail abuse at canadawebhosting.com which hosts BIYC.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/activism/media-activism
Online Dating Deception
One particular dating website touts themselves as being a dating site that doesn't use fake profiles like some other sites do. Well that's a relief, if there's one thing that annoys me when I'm looking for a busty blonde date, it's a profile that has been made to deceive me into paying money to contact her. Of course it's long been rumored that some sites do indeed utilize fake profiles to gain income.
Fortunately the website I'm reviewing is totally against using false profiles. In fact, "Wendy" the creator of the site had this to say: "BallsInYourCourt.com does not set up fake profiles to attract members and we also do not send out fake winks or smiles to our members. I was on another popular dating site that started sending out smiles to people from my profile, but it was not me sending them. I didn’t realize what was going on until I read an online article regarding this practise. It really opened my eyes to how some sites work." (Source: http://www.sugarcainentertainment.com/?p=354 )
So it was with great delight that when I queried Google for the terms "ballsinyourcourt" and "facebook" that no less than two dozen women popped up, each with a different name and living in a different city, but all using the same photos.
Each profile had no friends, no photo albums, nothing to indicate they were actively used accounts. These "hit and run" accounts are created overnight to be used for self-promotion daily.
I wondered if "Wendy" was even a woman, for it would be more of a male act to systematically spam Facebook, would it not?
To further reduce any speculation that the beautiful (and single) woman behind the website's creation ("Wendy") is a female, the website lacks any contact information other than an e-mail address. The terms of service do not show any postal address and the WHOIS information is private.
Add to the mystery, anyone who dared tell these BIYC women (on Facebook) that they were spamming (and spamming hard - over 20 cities EVERY SINGLE DAY) received a harsh personal attack in return. It is my opinion this was the act of a male.
I then went to Google and tried "ballsinyourcourt" and "craigslist" which brought me to more banner advertisements posted in various cities on Craigslist.
Finally I decided to try Myspace, where I found "Wendy" herself had been in a lengthy process of adding men to her friends list and then, every weekend, sending out a "have a great weekend" message (with a link to her website of course).
Yes folks, this website abides by the "no false profile" policy. They make their money from Google Adsense ads by the way, and Adsense is against unsolicited means of advertising.
Now I will digress it is entirely possible that a competitor, seeking to harm their reputation, is behind this. How though is it that the CEO/creator of the site is on Myspace, systematically spamming her own site?
The site is not even listed in the top 20 sites (though they claim to be the "best" site) and their message forum is quite dead (one area showed two messages posted in the last eight months). This site is not a threat to anyone, in fact I'd measure its lifespan in months, not years.
I think the daily spamming is more an act of a desperate attempt to remain alive.
(To complain about the abuse, write an email to: ABUSE at CANADAWEBHOSTING.COM )
Fortunately the website I'm reviewing is totally against using false profiles. In fact, "Wendy" the creator of the site had this to say: "BallsInYourCourt.com does not set up fake profiles to attract members and we also do not send out fake winks or smiles to our members. I was on another popular dating site that started sending out smiles to people from my profile, but it was not me sending them. I didn’t realize what was going on until I read an online article regarding this practise. It really opened my eyes to how some sites work." (Source: http://www.sugarcainentertainment.com/?p=354 )
So it was with great delight that when I queried Google for the terms "ballsinyourcourt" and "facebook" that no less than two dozen women popped up, each with a different name and living in a different city, but all using the same photos.
Each profile had no friends, no photo albums, nothing to indicate they were actively used accounts. These "hit and run" accounts are created overnight to be used for self-promotion daily.
I wondered if "Wendy" was even a woman, for it would be more of a male act to systematically spam Facebook, would it not?
To further reduce any speculation that the beautiful (and single) woman behind the website's creation ("Wendy") is a female, the website lacks any contact information other than an e-mail address. The terms of service do not show any postal address and the WHOIS information is private.
Add to the mystery, anyone who dared tell these BIYC women (on Facebook) that they were spamming (and spamming hard - over 20 cities EVERY SINGLE DAY) received a harsh personal attack in return. It is my opinion this was the act of a male.
I then went to Google and tried "ballsinyourcourt" and "craigslist" which brought me to more banner advertisements posted in various cities on Craigslist.
Finally I decided to try Myspace, where I found "Wendy" herself had been in a lengthy process of adding men to her friends list and then, every weekend, sending out a "have a great weekend" message (with a link to her website of course).
Yes folks, this website abides by the "no false profile" policy. They make their money from Google Adsense ads by the way, and Adsense is against unsolicited means of advertising.
Now I will digress it is entirely possible that a competitor, seeking to harm their reputation, is behind this. How though is it that the CEO/creator of the site is on Myspace, systematically spamming her own site?
The site is not even listed in the top 20 sites (though they claim to be the "best" site) and their message forum is quite dead (one area showed two messages posted in the last eight months). This site is not a threat to anyone, in fact I'd measure its lifespan in months, not years.
I think the daily spamming is more an act of a desperate attempt to remain alive.
(To complain about the abuse, write an email to: ABUSE at CANADAWEBHOSTING.COM )
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