| 2003/04/28 05:35:03 PDT by Temporal [manager] |
I received this e-mail several days ago.
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From: "Mark Wise" <mwise@cyop.org>
To: <webmaster@fateofio.org>
Subject: Interested in doing a Joint Venture with your company
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:21:06 -0700
Dear Sir or Madam,
CYOP Systems is a publicly traded internet venue (Nasdaq OTC) for
people to play video games either for free or for money. We would
very much like to put a free link button somewhere on your website,
or build for you (free of charge) a customized games site from
which you can derive revenue. Your company would be paid 50% of the
generated revenue every time someone enters and plays for money.Many
companies, especially those who attract a similar customer demographic,
as you do, earn significant extra incomes from their websites this
way. Should this be of interest to you we would be very pleased to hear
back. I will send you an affiliate contract if you are interested simply
reply to this email and I will forward it on to you. Our affliate contract
has more information as well as you can check our site
http://www.crediplay.co m/affiliates/index.php. Please do not hesitate to
contact me with any thoughts or questions that you might have. All set
up costs etc. will be paid by us.
All the best,
Mark Wise
Cyop Systems International Inc.
Nasd Otcbb "CYOI"
www.crediplay.com
mwise@cyop.org
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I figured it was spam and ignored it. A few days later, I received this next piece.
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From: "Mark Wise" <mwise@cyop.org>
To: <admin@fateofio.org>
Subject: Interested in doing a Joint Venture with your company
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:49:57 -0700
Dear Sir or Madam,
CYOP Systems is a publicly traded internet venue (Nasdaq OTC) for people to
play video games either for free or for money. We would very much like to
put a free link button somewhere on your website, or build for you (free of
charge) a customized games site from which you can derive revenue. Your
company would be paid 50% of the generated revenue every time someone
enters and plays for money. Many companies, especially those who attract a
similar customer demographic, as you do, earn significant extra incomes
from their websites this way. Should this be of interest to you we would
be very pleased to hear back. I will send you an affiliate contract if you
are interested simply reply to this email and I will forward it on to you.
Our affiliate contract has more information as well as you can check our
site http://www.crediplay.com/affiliates/index.php. Please do not hesitate
to contact me with any thoughts or questions that you might have. All set
up costs etc. will be paid by us. All the best,
Mark Wise
Cyop Systems International Inc.
Nasd Otcbb "CYOI"
www.crediplay.com
mwise@cyop.org
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At this point I realized that if I replied, the reply would probably be read. So, I did:
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From: Sir or Madam <someone@fateofio.org>
To: "Mark Wise" <mwise@cyop.org>
Subject: Re: Interested in doing a Joint Venture with your company
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:21:07 -0500
Dear Mr. Mark Wise,
You recently sent an offer to do a joint business venture to webmaster@fateofio.org. Having received no response, you send the same offer to admin@fateofio.org. This was good thinking. While you're at it, I suggest that you try sending the e-mail to:
root@fateofio.org
postmaster@fateofio.org
manager@fateofio.org
abuse@fateofio.org
system@fateofio.org
Obviously, if webmaster@fateofio.org and admin@fateofio.org were not successful, those might work, right?
Of course, actually reading the site to find out the owner's e-mail address before offering them a "joint business venture" would be out of the question. It is certainly not worth five minutes of your time to investigate a lowly client.
Besides, if you had read the site, you might have discovered that we were not a company. It may even have turned out that we were 5-10 bored college students working on a project. It could be, after all, that we rarely get other visitors. If this had been the case, you might have decided that making this offer to us was silly, and you might have saved yourself and your company some embarrassment. It was certainly a good idea not to do so!
Sincerely,
Sir or Madam
PS. I plan to make a public mockery of your spam on my site. Thanks for the laughs!
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Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
(Needless to say, please do NOT give this company your business!)