Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 1995/12

From: allen1@-----.NET
Subj: PSA: Scam Alert!! Pass this Info on Please!
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 12:44:17 -0500

Dear 'Net Community,

Please Post this and pass this on your friends. Perhaps our combined
efforts will drum these BANDITS out of Business and keep others from being
victimized!. Feel free to use this letter to send to the Attorney General
of CA. Any Help will be most appreciated.

Attorney General Daniel E. Lungren
12/23/95
1515 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Attorney General Daniel E. Lungren,

Thank you in advance for your time in responding to my letter. I am
contacting your agency to lodge a complaint of fraud against a business in
the city of Santa Monica, CA.

The company does business under the name of E Mail America. They advertise
in internet News Groups and via e-mail to business who market on the
internet. They are advertising a data base of 20 Million current e-mail
addresses that deliver to 97% of the list.

I ordered this list for their advertised cost of $359.00. Instead, what
was delivered was 28 disks of 718,000 e-mail addresses. Many addresses were
duplicates that were well over 3 years old! Due to the amount of
"thrashing" on many servers, most of the list is no good.

Here is their current address of business:

Email America
625 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 100
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone 310-976-4070

(I have made numerous attemps at requesting a refund. E Mail America will
not return my calls. They refuse to personally answer their phone, you are
asked to leave your name and a phone number to call you back.)

I would appreciate any assistance you could offer in closing this business
and prosecuting the principles involved with this fraud. Needless to say,
a refund of the $359.00 would also make my holidays a little brighter.

Sincerely,

Name Removed
Because I Feel Like
Such A Fool!

(Attached is their advertising fraud.)

IMAGINE ADVERTISING YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE TO OVER 100,000 PEOPLE PER HOUR
FOR ONLY YOUR CONNECT TIME CHARGES!!

Email America Co. specializes in providing bulk email lists for your
advertising use. Over the past year we have been able to develop a list of
over 20 million email addresses covering the internet. This list is compiled
on computer disks in plain ascii text format. Using simple text edit
routines, you can extract the email addresses and import them into your
address book. This saves you time by not having to type the addresses into
an address book!

We have developed this list for a variety of our advertising projects with a
great deal of success, and have to date seen an 18%+ response rate!! This
will of course vary depending on the product or service offered. It is
almost impossible to find another form of advertising that generates such a
high response rate.

By sending your messages during periods of slow online use (avoid early
evenings) you can send over 100,000 ads for the price of 10 first class
letters by U.S. Mail! Nothing compares!

We are offering you 5 MILLION of these same addresses in an easy to use plain
ascii text format for only $99! Imagine reaching 5 MILLION people.....with
regular advertising it would cost you in the hundreds of thousands of
dollars. With our introductory 5 Million your overhead is so low that it
takes just a few orders to pay for itself!

By using a word processor or the DOS editor or other edit programs, you can
have over 100,000 ads ready to be sent in just a few minutes. If you are
getting this message then chances are that you have all the equipment you
need (modem, AOL software, any software with an address book or email
option).

The program comes with *complete instructions* and is so simple you will be
ready to start the same day you receive the material. We also offer phone
and email support FREE to assist you!

ORDER NOW! OFFER GOOD ONLY THROUGH OCTOBER 23rd!!!!!

ORDERING INFORMATION

Phone-Day (_____)_____-__________ Fax- (_____) _____-__________

Evening (_____) _____-________

Products:

Introductory 5 Million - 5 million email addresses in an easy _______$99
to use plain ascii text format

10 Million - 10 million email addresses in an easy to use
________$189
plain ascii text format

15 Million - 15 million email addresses in an easy to use
________$269
plain ascii text format

20 Million - 20 million email addresses in an easy to use
________$359
plain ascii text format
Subtotal
__________

Tax(if applicable)
__________

Next Day* (optional- $20)
__________

TOTAL
$____________

*For an additional $20 we will deliver your order Federal Express Next Day

Orders accompanied by a Certified Check or Money Order will be shipped the
following day. Other orders will be shipped within 5 business days of
receipt of order. Mail your payment today and please complete the above
information. Mail payment to:

Email America Co.
626 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suite 100
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone (310) 967-4070