All in poker / El Blondie

[thelodger]

I got an emal today from this also, it was marked spam, daft thing is I already have an account with them.

[allinpoker]

Hi, one of the ways we facilitate our members to refer their friends to the site is via an Invitations Page. This allows you to enter free format text and send an email invite to your friend with a link embedded in the email, taking the recipient to a registration page. The system sends the email using the email address entered in the registration profile of the sender. Obviously people can change their own profile and give themselves any name they want. I have set the investigation in motion but we need to examine the invitations database, which, I hope you understand, is difficult to do at 10pm Friday night. But we'll find out where it came from. I guess with many thousands of users this can happen. Paul

I skipped part (i) as I wasn't particularly interested, but part (ii) seems to skip the issue of signing off as Dave Colclough - I think that's the issue we are most interested in. Your comments would be appreciated

[allinpoker]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't - if someone is making wild statements about my company I feel I should explain exactly what we do and open up via my email address to take any further questions. Also, I know Dave Colclough and Tony Kendall, both of whom I respect greatly, and if someone is really using Dave's name, then I regard it as important to go in and take a strong position.

BTW: I 'm impressed too - I just checked out your site by clicking on the advertisement for it at the bottom of your post. Not bad.

Paul

What a cracking reply.  A nice full advert for the company and a "We'll look into it".

 

I'm impressed.

[bundle]

I think you have to admit, your strategy for acquiring new players is somewhat suspicious.

I am sure the whole poker internet Business is very competitive and requires clever marketing to be successful, But as soon as you start talking about Downlines  People will automatically think of pyramid schemes.

You say this is no such thing, Well it certainly looks like one to me. Along with the fact that peoples names are being added to this scheme without their knowledge, Just makes it look even worse.

There is no place in poker for deceptive tactics and pyramid schemes, you are just arming the government with reasons to protect us. I do hope you rethink your position on marketing.

Oh and while you are reading this maybe you could have a word with this guy and tell him not to spam my mailbox again….

When you register (free of charge) you will be able to invite new members to your downline. By building a downline of poker players, you can generate significant monthly earnings
Please note: the registration page allows you to lock your Level 1 and thus prevent automatic referrals coming into your Level 1 for up to 48 hours after you register. This gives you time to directly refer your chosen members to your Level 1.
Welcome to my downline!
John Schultz 

[ifm]

[TightEnd]

Blimey 

so Ifm, it's spam or do I misunderatand what you are trying to say? 

[bundle]

Hey IFM how big is the file you uploaded to your post?  My browser loads in under 4 secs but now on this thread its 22 secs...

[ifm]

Been dying to use those for ages 

BTW just left Dan in a sat for the £500 fest game at walsall, he was in clover with 10 left 5 seats available.

[dik9]

anyone know who Paul Millward and Jacqueline Brindley are? I got the same email with their names at the bottom too.

I know who sent the Isabelle Mercier one and Jacqueline Brindley may well be the same person. As the connection is there.

[elblondie]

I am currently investigating how my name was used. I have not purposely sent any emails in the last month or so.

If anyone has any evidence of receiving emails from me, I would love to see the email.

[thelodger]

Mine came from (Donal S [pokerwhiz1@hotmail.com]) Never heard of him/her, dont know if this helps anyone if not just ignore it, like i did the email.

[MrMoves]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't - if someone is making wild statements about my company I feel I should explain exactly what we do and open up via my email address to take any further questions. Also, I know Dave Colclough and Tony Kendall, both of whom I respect greatly, and if someone is really using Dave's name, then I regard it as important to go in and take a strong position.

BTW: I 'm impressed too - I just checked out your site by clicking on the advertisement for it at the bottom of your post. Not bad.

Paul

Nearly everybody has a personal website.  I don't include a 288 word sales spiel with mine, I'm not that desperate.  Damned if you do and break for the advertisement in between perhaps?

Hi, one of the ways we facilitate our members to refer their friends to the site is via an Invitations Page. This allows you to enter free format text and send an email invite to your friend with a link embedded in the email, taking the recipient to a registration page.

So, anybody can harvest an email list and spam them from your website under the names of well known players?

I'll just report any email spam from your company to Prima Poker directly in future.

[AdamM]

Dave, I will forward the email I recieved.

can we have allinpokers' spam reply removed from this thread?

the explaination is much the same as last time it happened, and no improvement seems to have been made. It's unsolicited email in my inbox which by my reckoning is spam,whatever the terms and conditions say and lots of it .

Allinpoker tries to come across as an organisationset up purely to benefit poker players. crap, it's there to make money on the back of poker players. to try and come across as if there's nothing in it for them is daft.  it is a pyramid scheme. because the participants dont directly pay money to allinpoker doesnt change that.

[MrMoves]

 

[North Angel]

I am currently investigating how my name was used. I have not purposely sent any emails in the last month or so.

If anyone has any evidence of receiving emails from me, I would love to see the email.

Hi Dave,

I have forwarded the email i received from all in poker, and it seems to be using your personal email addy.

Ang x x