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To Get Your Free Work at Home List Please Follow These 3 Simple Steps to Confirm Your Email AddressWhich told me to open my email, open the message and click the confirmation link. I opened my email. The message read:
You were just at our site FreeWorkAtHomeList.com and requested our Free Work At Home List. I look forward to sending it to you. But first, you just need to take a quick second to click on the confirmation link below. This ensures that we only send our list to people who really want them, and it helps eliminate spam.Okay. I figure no problem. Now I can complete the process. I clicked the link.
But what happened to the "Free Work at Home List"? It's nowhere to be found!
I then clicked the Terms and Conditions link from the Google Income Kit sign up page (always my first step before signing up for anything). Lo and behold, a pop-up window, which describes the Terms and Conditions for the "BlogToolKit" I bring you the same old crap! Where did the BlogToolKit come from? And where is my "Free Work at Home List?" Did somebody eat it when I wasn't looking?
To their credit, this outfit admits they want to take your money right on the sign up page, although it's in very pale gray text. It says (emphasis added):
This is a trustworthy, authentic and secure website (actually, when I clicked through, the browser told me the site's security certificate was invalid)... By continuing, your kit will be sent to you via United States mail, in 3 to 5 business days, S/H not included, so be sure to look for it. Also, by continuing you understand this offer includes a 14-Day Free Trial to the BlogToolKit.com website, which can help you create an additional income using the tools and strategies inside. After the 14-Day Free Trial period, you will continue to enjoy full membership at an affordable $39.95 per month billed automatically to your credit card.Well, isn't that special? So you're telling me, my Free Work at Home List, is neither:
But wait! It gets even better.
("How could it?", you're asking.)
What they don't tell you directly on the sign up page but do mention in the Terms and Conditions (and I assume the Privacy Policy too, except that I was too ill to read it by that time, and again, I've added emphasis here as I wouldn't want you to miss something exciting):
We may sell our user information and/or join together with other businesses to bring selected opportunities to our members. By allowing us to make the information you supply available to these third parties, you are able to receive free information on products and services that may be of interest to you. We will use contact information from your registration data to send you information about our products and services and to keep you informed of our other products and services that may be of interest to you. This information may also be shared with third party advertisers who may contact you by means of e-mail, telephone or other sources of marketing. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the practices of our third-party advertisers.Now that's really special! Thanks so much. I'm so glad I clicked your ad. I'm also glad to you are able to eliminate spam by making me click a confirmation link that goes to a completely different offer than the Free Work at Home List you advertised, yet you are willing to SELL my information to others so they can spam me! Now that's just so special that my eyes are welling up with tears.
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