How low might one get? The number of encounters I have had in the few years as a network marketer with liars is astounding. Why do people absolutely need to stoop to lying in their attempt to succeed? 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 advertisement 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 contruct . About seven many years 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 directions 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 electronic mail sending, I used the addresses of people who had spammed me. Some of them even wrote nasty replies complaining. Hypocrites!

That was an finish 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 electronic mail is not the way to advertise. Recently I have come across the term "Safe lists". A Safe List is supposed to be a list of email addresses from many people who have requested information on a business opportunity. But just how safe are these lists?

Here is how I imagine it. John requests from Mary data about her business. Mary sells Johns email 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 email coming into my mailbox is spam from many people 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 email 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 selling ? 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 people using different electronic mail addresses to send from each instant. Some, I think, even use false addresses. So the criminal intentions are there.

Here is my communication to these criminal spammers: Why waste your time and money on these fruitless efforts? Why go to all that trouble just to get a bad reputation? Get into a real profit creating code . There are many legitimate businesses helping many all the people 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 generate 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 funds and ISP credibility isnt assessment of value it. How can you make 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.