Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Every couple of months I get an e-mail message to my RCP webmaster address that runs something like this:
A user at our website is researching your background.
A user at our website has begun the process of meeting people who know you. This email has been automatically sent to you to inform you of this. The mission of the Web site is to promote goodness in people by efficiently extending the concept of "word-of-mouth" to the Internet, allowing the people of our world to share their experiences with others in a secure and anonymous fashion. Snopes.com has the lowdown on the poltroons that send out this junk.
...sites such as Word of Mouth, which attempt to lure the gullible into joining their "services" by spamming Internet users with ominous-sounding exhortations similar to the messages quoted above: People are filing (anonymous) reports about you! Use our service to find out what they're saying! But only a sucker would pay to find out what anonymous people are saying about him, since anybody (including the people operating the service) could be generating the gossip.
And suckers is what they're counting on. In short, if you receive a message that smells like this scam, trash it. posted: 7:38:27 PM |
 D. Gorsline, Proprietor
   
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