Company claiming to sell ads on my site... but I don't know them

[Saturnin]

I came across an email at the end of last week from a niche aggregator company claiming to sell ads on a website which I own. However, I don't have an agreement with them for anything. In fact, I don't have ads on anything but static redirects, and those are Google Ads.

The bozos were dumb enough to send me the email directly (well to my Gmail). It said that it was from my website (but with their email address), that my site is part of their "network", and then concluded with the name of my website and a street address that was c/o them and their business premises.

I own all the close URLs for my website, and am the only one worldwide using name or other variants. (I've been using it since 2004.)

The company doing the claiming is large enough to be sued (turnover probably $28-30 mil a year), but any ideas on what steps to take/ laws they might be breaking/ etc, etc?

Any and all feedback welcome....

[TB Adriana]

have no idea, but are you sure it's not just random spam? I don't think there is anything illegal about it, if they're not claiming you owe them something...i'm not a lawyer/expert or anything, but unfortunately that might be just free speech

[GonZo]

Originally Posted by Saturnin

I came across an email at the end of last week from a niche aggregator company claiming to sell ads on a website which I own. However, I don't have an agreement with them for anything. In fact, I don't have ads on anything but static redirects, and those are Google Ads.

The bozos were dumb enough to send me the email directly (well to my Gmail). It said that it was from my website (but with their email address), that my site is part of their "network", and then concluded with the name of my website and a street address that was c/o them and their business premises.

I own all the close URLs for my website, and am the only one worldwide using name or other variants. (I've been using it since 2004.)

The company doing the claiming is large enough to be sued (turnover probably $28-30 mil a year), but any ideas on what steps to take/ laws they might be breaking/ etc, etc?

Any and all feedback welcome....

Dealing with advertising networks gives me hope that there are indeed slimier people in mainstream than adult.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by GonZo

Dealing with advertising networks gives me hope that there are indeed slimier people in mainstream than adult.

Unfortunately "adult" includes the niche "kiddie porn", so I doubt if you will ever find a scumball worse than the worst scumball in our business.

[GigglesWorld]

Sounds like it's just spam to me.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Unfortunately "adult" includes the niche "kiddie porn"

I strongly disagree.

KP is *NOT* a niche of any kind within adult marketing.

Neither is sex with animals or fucking a corpse.

They may be things that some fucked in the head adults do.

That does not make them part of legitimate adult marketing.

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[GonZo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Unfortunately "adult" includes the niche "kiddie porn", so I doubt if you will ever find a scumball worse than the worst scumball in our business.

I think I just did if you think its a niche in this biz.
GG where do I ignore this tard?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Simon

I strongly disagree.

KP is *NOT* a niche of any kind within adult marketing..

"adult marketing" is selling anything that people buy for sexual gratification. Just because something that falls within your sphere of marketing is evil, that does not give you an excuse to pretend that it is not "porn".

I think I just did if you think its a niche in this biz.
GG where do I ignore this tard?

To deny responsibility is as bad an condoning. By screaming "It is nothing to do with me mate, and ban anyone who worries about it, because it is none of our business", you are basically defending these assholes.

[Simon]

"adult marketing" is selling anything that people buy for sexual gratification. Just because something that falls within your sphere of marketing is evil, that does not give you an excuse to pretend that it is not "porn".

Actually, just because someone else decided to put the two words K + P together does not mean I have to accept that they belong together that way. I feel sorry for you if you don't see that, and if you don't realize that it's done in an attempt to paint legitimate porn marketers with the brush of illegitimacy. In this case it's you who are basically defending the assholes, since the assholes in this case are those who would claim that KP somehow belongs within the realm of legitimate adult marketing.

I seriously hope you'll be able to rethink your current position on this, and that you'll realize you don't have to agree with or defend that original statement any further. If not, that's up to you, and I'm willing to let you have the last word if you want. It's your choice what you want those words to be. In either case, I've made my position on this known and don't intend to justify this with an ongoing debate.


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[raymor]

It is called the ADULT industry. Over the years it seems more and more people in the adult industry are also involved criminal activity such as spam and fraud as the legitimate players have decided it's acceptable to deal with low lifes. Maybe it's a question we each decide for ourselves, whether criminals are part of our business znd to be treated as such or whether they are instead part of the crime industry and should be so treated.