Team promote spam.
I want to know how did team promote get my email address.
I also want to know who gave the owners of team promote permission to send advertising to me?
These questions need answering for EVERYONE that is getting team promote spam emails.
Some are going to say but Team Promote is part of APSense.
Team promote is a totally separate domain and is an add-on just as that crappy Sokule is an add-on. The fact you can only join if you are a member of APSense is totally irrelevant
So the questions are as stated Where did Team Promote Get our email addresses from? and Who gave Team Promotion permission to use our email addresses.
Has some one has abused our privacy rights and handed them over?
or Has the data base been accessed either illegally through the front door OR has it been hacked.?
As Members we all have a right to know the answer to these questions.
Sokule as an add-on has to send their adds through the APSense mailing system. So WHY are the Team promote emails coming directly from Team Promote's server?
Bj
I also want to know who gave the owners of team promote permission to send advertising to me?
These questions need answering for EVERYONE that is getting team promote spam emails.
Some are going to say but Team Promote is part of APSense.
Team promote is a totally separate domain and is an add-on just as that crappy Sokule is an add-on. The fact you can only join if you are a member of APSense is totally irrelevant
So the questions are as stated Where did Team Promote Get our email addresses from? and Who gave Team Promotion permission to use our email addresses.
Has some one has abused our privacy rights and handed them over?
or Has the data base been accessed either illegally through the front door OR has it been hacked.?
As Members we all have a right to know the answer to these questions.
Sokule as an add-on has to send their adds through the APSense mailing system. So WHY are the Team promote emails coming directly from Team Promote's server?
Bj
Comments (24)
Bj aka Bill Brown
14
Hosting and Backup Service provider
@Gerry if you are one of these numb nuts that likes having your email address abused then that is up to you. however as clearly stated the law is being broken by sending emails to those that have not requested them.
Gerry Copenhaver
5
Team Leader
Wow, all this hoopla over something that you can just click a box and say I don't want it. Pathetic!! BTW, if the record shows the date and time you joined teampromote and you still insist you didn't do it.. perhaps you should check and see if someone else in your household did it for you...
Bj aka Bill Brown
14
Hosting and Backup Service provider
@Vishwajeet there are no politics here. I am a concerned member wanting to know why my email is receiving spam from a site I have not authorized to send me any emails. There is also the question of how many more members are having their email abused.
Cheryl Baumgartner
12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Oh and being signed up as a member of APSense means that the person is a member of APSense, they are not a member of any add-on service until they actually add it. So the idea that being a member of APSense is blanket agreement to receive anything from an add-on service is false. That is not politics, that is the law. Can Spam requires express permission before you send any commercial email-period.
Cheryl Baumgartner
12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Sorry but Team promote is no different than the APSense communities they are owned by APSense but are add-ons not a part of the APSense Site. As the Moderator of two Communities and eZineSpace, I have no legal right to send emails to anyone not signed up for them or who has asked for that email through those domains. The APSense main site can send promotional emails about these add-ons but unless someone has given their express permission to Team Promote to receive emails from Team Promote, an
Vishwajeet Kumar
14
Blogger
I think, I can smell politics here in apsense, I Request wincer to make a treatment of this.
Bj aka Bill Brown
14
Hosting and Backup Service provider
For the record and those that are too blind to read it. I repeat "I HAVE NEVER JOINED TEAMPROMOTE, I HAVE NEVER LOGGED INTO TEAM PROMOTE" I did not want to say this but as my hand is being forced i have no option. I dont care what Philippe says as I do not trust him as far as I can spit, and that is why I have never logged into/joined TP I would not join anything run by him.
Wincer Song
16
APSense Founder
I have to make things clear. TeamPromote is one addon service for APSense. Anyone can Join or Quit this add-on service. And if you want to cancel new compaign notification from TeamPromote, just one click in the email to unsubscribe it or goto account page change the subscription option. The other thing about joining campaigns. If you want to join one campaign, you have to share your email with advertiser of campaign. Advertisters may contact you by email for your campaigns.
Vishwajeet Kumar
14
Blogger
I don't know why the top level members are arguing for just an email =, which has been sent by teampromote which is a part of apsense. This is not genuine!
Donald bein G.
4
http://www.easyhits4u.com/?ref=donaldbein
this must be with the consent of the members... they must have informed who is in the data list about this updates...
Neville Dinning
10
Independent Consultant
Checking the ownership of TeamPromote will show you that the owner is apsense.com so I think we can say that TeamPromote IS part of APSense.
Philippe Moisan
16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
I just checked in the back office, bj you joined TeamPromote on Sept. 21, at 17:28 so it's normal that you receive the emails
Philippe Moisan
16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
LOL I never expected you to try to please me. I looked at your edited article. Based on your logic, Augine, Ask APSense, APSense.Me, the APSense Traffic Exchange, the APSense Wiki, the URL Shortener, EzineSpace, they are on separate domains, so they are not part of APSense? I said it elsewhere, I will repeat it here. TeamPromote has been developed by Wincer, just like the other add-ons I mentioned in this comment I'm writing now. You are playing with words.
Bj aka Bill Brown
14
Hosting and Backup Service provider
I have edited my text slightly but not to please you Philippe, but to be more accurate. as i said I received one today from teampromote.com I also received one 2 or 3 days ago also from the same origin.
Philippe Moisan
16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
bj I will ask the question to Wincer and let you know. When did you receive these emails from TeamPromote? What was the email address who sent it to you? By the way, you might want to edit your article since it gives false information about TeamPromote when you say: "WRONG Team promote is an add-on just as that crappy Sokule is an add-on they are NOT part of APSense."
Bj aka Bill Brown
14
Hosting and Backup Service provider
@Cindy as expected Rob would be getting emails if he joined. I would like to know how many more that did not join tp are getting emails from it.
Bj aka Bill Brown
14
Hosting and Backup Service provider
Thank you Philippe for your confirmation that the email I received from teampromote.com IS spam as I have NOT joined team promote. So now the question still needs answering is how did my email address get into the team promote database?
Philippe Moisan
16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
If you receive emails from TeamPromote, it's because you have joined it. TeamPromote is part of APSense, we can't join it if we are not APSense members. emails are sent to members who joined TeamPromote to inform them when new campaigns are created or if there are news that concern it specifically.
Rob aka Cerberus
17
Better World Partisan
The only e-mails that I am getting from TeamPromote are Email Notifications about new campaigns (I did leave the initial setting on "My Account"). @ Cindy .. yes, I am getting notification on low credits from APSense Traffix as well :)
Cindy Bolley
16
HHCTB?
@ Rob.... I am sure BJ will ask but I will asks as well... do you get emails from any of the other services that you have added?... Cindy