Question:
Getting junk e-mail regarding weight loss since signing up to obestiy.com

Since I have become a member of obesityhelp.com, I have started to receive junk e-mail for all kinds of weight loss programs, everything from pills to equipment. It makes me angry that they do this. I don't blame the site, just curious if anyone else is getting this junk. Thanks    — Gail M. (posted on May 20, 2001)


May 20, 2001
never got any junk :( this is so boring... just e-mail them back and ask to be remove from their mailing list. state that you will take action against them if you receive mail from them again... be persistant its against the law to send spam mail... :) good luck
   — carou1313

May 20, 2001
I have received two e mails over the last few days. Both from the same company. I don't know if they are from this site or the diet help group I've sign on to. I emailed them back and told them to take me off the list.
   — Jan M.

May 20, 2001
I forward everything to my ISP and let their abuse unit deal with it. We get some of the most outrageous stuff, all of it unsolicited, that I just automatically forward everything that I know we don't want.
   — Dee P.

May 20, 2001
There is someplace on the site - I forget exactly where, I want to say it's one of the surveys or something, that says our email addresses may be made available to organizations in our area (geographic?) related to weight loss surgery, etc. I've received a few...I just deleted them since I already have a surgeon. They haven't bothered me again.
   — blee01

May 20, 2001
Been on this site since 1998 and have not received ONE wt loss spam, so I suspect your source might be elsewhere. I get plenty of SPAM, usually to refinance my home at a much higher rate (?), but nothing on wt loss.
   — vitalady

May 21, 2001
Most e-mail providers collect information of us. That could be the source. For example, you are looking at your email and then decide to cruise the web and check out weight loss sites -- well, they can collect info on where you go on your computer then send you information based on that. I don't know exactly how this works, but it does. Yahoo clearly states that they collect information of us. Hope this helps.
   — Cindy H.

May 21, 2001
I havent received one piece of junk email either since I've been on this site.
   — Karla K.

May 22, 2001
I'm a member of Yahoo, when I signed up for one of their support groups they told me they were adding "weight loss" as an interest in my Yahoo profile. Then I got invitations from Yahoo people to join things I'm thoroughly against. I had to figure out how to remove that "interest" because the e-diet ads are bad enough without targeted email. I'll echo what others below said, I've never received something I thought was tied to the AMOS website.
   — kcanges

June 13, 2003
YES! I started getting them exactly 2 days after I signed up at Obesity Help. I never received them before that. Now I get several every day and I haven't signed up for other sites so I know it originated from this site. Most of them are diet (lose weight fast) emails. Sorry your getting them too.
   — Cintha G.




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