[mcmama]

Spammers from spam sweatshops in India, China, and other countries are very busy people. They get paid pennies a post to spam forums with advertising, buzz, and links to websites for those who are too cheap to have a real advertising budget. Some of those sites that they link to are outright fraud.

We do our best here at Families.com to aggressively eliminate spam and spammers. PLEASE do not click on links in posts that are promising you solutions to a debt problem, or offering to sell you something at a great price. The price is often your credit card number, your identity, or the contents of your computer. Instead, click on the triangle above the post to report it to me and the mods. We will eliminate the spam and the spammer. For today, anyway. They always come back with new identities, new emails, and new ips from hacked or disguised servers. And we eliminate them again. And again.

Only click on a link in a post if you feel the poster has some reputation, and even then, please be aware that this is the internet and people might not be all they seem. This includes links not only to commercial sites, but to information and advocacy groups as well. Dont electronically sign any "petitions" - often that is a surefire way to open up your email box to spam, unless you really know the source of the site.

Many links look like they are going to a reputable company - in the blink of an eye they pass through a referral site. Or the sites that look like the company you think you are going to may in fact be fraud, set up for "phishing" schemes.

And if you ARE a spammer, do not even think of spamming this thread with solicitations for spyware, antivirus protection, detective services, credit repair, etc.