How low may one get? The number of encounters I have had in the few decades as a network marketer with liars is astounding. Why do all the people positive need to stoop to lying in their attempt to be successful? Do they really believe that they will attract customers by using deceptive means. Hey friends, Ive got news for you! You are the ones who have been deceived!

When I placed a single ad with the URL of my newly created autoresponder, I started to receive all sorts of strange emails to that autoresponder address. All of them said they had seen my business ad and bla bla bla. Liars! All I advertised was my autoresponder! So what was going on?

Well, I have a confession to generate. About seven decades ago, when I first discovered the Internet, and got my first taste of spam, I fell for it, and became a spammer myself. But not for long, as my ISP was quick to disconnect me, before I even knew what "Spam" was. Well I soon woke up.

What I had done, following commands of course, was to download a code which "harvested" other emails from web pages on the Net. Then I had also downloaded and used a bulk emailer. Apart from taking temporarily disconnected I also received some nasty replies. And guess what? My second attempt, which was an attempt to avoid unsolicited e-mail sending, I used the addresses of all the people who had spammed me. Some of them even wrote nasty replies complaining. Hypocrites!

That was an end to my early attempts as a Networker. I gave that up quick, especially after reading about Spam and realizing how unwanted it is. I also realized that bulk e-mail is not the way to market. Recently I have come across the term "Safe lists". A Safe List is supposed to be a list of email addresses from all the people who have requested data on a business opportunity. But just how safe are these lists?

Here is how I imagine it. John requests from Mary understanding about her business. Mary sells Johns e-mail address as part of a safe list to Tom, Dick and Harry. John now gets emails from Mary, Tom, Dick and Harry, three of which he did not request. Hence John was spammed, and Mary gets paid. Tom, Dick and Harry get a nasty spam complaint from their ISP who disconnects their account. Thanks Mary.

Amazingly 90% or more of the e mail coming into my mailbox is spam from everybody selling bulk e-mail software, or offering some other get rich scheme. They are still using harvesting software (this is how they got my auto-responder address) and the bulk e mail software (this is how they emailed me) they just paid for. Sadly these are mostly the victims of the master culprits who get these poor suckers to buy into their program. Guess who gets rich, and who doesnt?

Do you see the untruthfulness in this kind of advertising? Lets not call it that, it is spamming. They first of all steal the e-mail addresses. Next they sent emails to these addresses totally unsolicited. Consequently they get disconnected. But they seem to expect that. I get many emails from the identical everybody using different electronic mail addresses to send from each measure . Some, I think, even make use of false addresses. So the criminal intentions are there.

Here is my message to these criminal spammers: Why waste your measure and money on these fruitless efforts? Why go to all that trouble just to get a bad reputation? Get into a real profit creating script. There are many legitimate companies helping many everybody build a reasonable income. If you put all the hard work you are wasting on these deceptive programs into one of these legitimate programs, you will not only build for yourself an income, you will also have satisfaction.

If you, dear readers , are contemplating using any of those enticing offers of bulk e mail or e mail harvesting - dont do it! Losing money and ISP credibility isnt assessment of value it. How may you contruct a solid base if your customers dont trust you? Trust is what your customers are putting in you, and trustworthiness is what you should give them. Tell them the truth, be honest and they will love you for it. And they are sure to come back and bring others with them.