Did anyone else get this chicken-website, spam email?

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I'm the administrator of two other forums, both having thousands of members, but nothing to do with chickens. Once we had our membership lists abused by someone wanting to profit from our forums' members. I received the following email and plan to respond. Please, if you get/got the following email, please inform them that you think their business methods are much less than honest. Please ask that they remove your name from their list that they are using without permission from their source. They had to get my name from this forum because it's the only chicken forum I now belong to or ever have belonged to. This is spam at its worst!
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Hello,

My name is ................, My husband .......... and I own the ................., our site is located at ...................................

We are dedicated to poultry breeders and their breeds of choice, we are now in the top 3 rankings of Google and Yahoo when using search words “....................”.

With the economy in its present condition, we are offering (1) banner and (1) logo per advertising slot on our site that will be put in rotation on our home page and the logo would be placed in rotation on all pages for $20 for the remainder of 2009. That’s Twenty Dollars for the rest of 2009. We also offer a permanent text link ads up to 4 lines on our homepage for $50 for the rest of the year. You can also get more than 1 slot to maximize your site’s exposure. Now if you think that our offer is still expensive, let us know and we will negotiate.

If you have any questions, please contact us and we will try to answer your questions as quickly as possible.

Best Regards

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We haven't gotten it either but I will be on the lookout. Some people have no couth.
 
I'd notify the moderators and Nifty about it. Maybe they can check into this more?
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Hey I got one them emails, I was wondering where and how they got my email. Shortly afterwards, I got a virus in my computer, it has cost me some money and alot of time getting it out of my computer.
When I looked at their ads they had, they had one on there from the Marans club, so I just thought they got my email from on there.
 
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Please send me a PM with the email address, name and forum in the email. I will look into it and see if I can do something about it.

If you were sent this via PM, please send me the username.

Thanks.
 
They probably signed up as a member and then targeted active members and ones with their contact info setting in the profile to allow emails.

I've sent them a cease and desist letter.

Not a good way to start / run a business by spamming people.
 

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