Originally Posted by Witmaster

So I fill out the online regestration the below listed link. I was going to purchase the ebook. Like an idiot, I assume, hey, it's an Ironmag sponsor. I can trust it.

Well today I find dozens of spam emails from Supplement companies I've never heard of in my email. Bull Fucking Shit. I should have known better.

Originally Posted by DaMayor

You should've bought Lyle's book.

Originally Posted by Prince

Tom Venuto is 100% against spam, so I find this EXTREMELY difficult to believe, not calling you a liar, but I would have to say Burn the Fat was not the source of your spam. I have been working with Tom for the past 5 years and that is not how he operates.

I plan to test this myself by creating a new email account and signing up for the e-course today, I will report back tomorrow in this thread.

I also plan on emailing Tom personally and passing this info on to him and I will report back his response.

Originally Posted by Prince

he did not buy the BFFM ebook, he said that he signed up for the free 12 part e course that I have links for.

Originally Posted by Prince

here is a screen shot of my new test email account, as you can see there are two emails in it so far, the confirmation email and the intro email, I will post a screen shot tomorrow as well.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Gmail is pretty good at sorting out spam, though.

Originally Posted by Built

That's awesome, Prince - thank you so much for doing that.

Originally Posted by Witmaster

Thank you for looking into this, Prince. I was probably a tad bit over zealous in my original post.

I honestly have no idea how my email address would have been hijacked by hack supplement companies.

If your test turns results in no spam that I'll have to assume I was wrong.

Strange though, the only thing I have done online with my email has been to register the 12-part series.

Originally Posted by Prince

after looking into it further and seeing that he is using Aweber its very possible that they "hijack" the email addresses, if so that is messed up...I will let you know what happens tomorrow. I know how "anti-spam" Tom is, so I would have to assume he does not realize anything like this is happening.

Originally Posted by Witmaster

Regardless, I probably should have just PM'd you the matter rather than just flame out in an open rant.

Thanks for addressing the concern. I'm still a satisfied customer.

Originally Posted by Prince

Well, I stand corrected!!!

Since I started my test this morning at 8am I have now received 6 spam messages and they are definitely part of Aweber.com because the spam wants me to sign up for their newsletters. So, my thought on this is Aweber.com sells off ALL email addresses that come in on all customer accounts to other Aweber customers that want to buy legit email addresses. This is pretty messed up in my opinion since companies are paying to use this service in the first place.

I sent Tom another email since I have confirmed the spam, still waiting for his response, knowing Tom he is not aware of this and will not be too happy about it.

Originally Posted by KelJu

I am pretty impressed by both your call to action and your honesty in the matter. Keep up the good work!

Originally Posted by dg806

That has to be a lie. How else could this have occured?

Originally Posted by dg806

Anything I sign up for now goes to a yahoo, gmail or other email account just for this purpose. I don't trust anyone anymore.