curiousdog

I signed up for a couple of sites myself, to test them out.

Result: I got spam which can only be from these sites. I never used this combination of name and email for anything else.

Now spamming the customers, this is pretty bad!

I thinkt the payment processors maybe did not do it, in at least one occasion I needed to contact customer service, maybe someone picked up the email there.

One of them, I pursued them relentlessly writing to all their sponsors, until they got kicked out and the spam ceased.

Interestingly, nobody spams their affiliate webmasters. Probably they know that it would have consequences.

Nowadays, I found a setup for my email server (qmail?) to create an infinity of email addresses, I just use these email addresses now. But I feel bad enticing customers to sign up, knowing that their email address might get spoiled forever.