Someone on SomoneLikesYou.com has me on their list of people they like. How do I know? I got an e-mail from the website tellin me about it. Here's the annoying part..I gotta guess the e-mail address of the person who likes me. AND I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHO IT IS!!! If anyone here has me on that list, just e-mail me already so I don't go as crazy as the Hulk. RARRGGH! JASON SMASH PEOPLE RUNNING SECRET ADMIRER WEBSITE!! 😛
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Arrgh! secret admirer sites drive me nuts!
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Myriads
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And there might not be anyone on the site that likes you. You might be the subject of an e-marketing attempt to just get you to come use the site.
A few years back I got a letter from a 'secret someone' from a site that ended up causing some serious complications in my life when I followed it up with the person whom I though sent it. It was not them, and the cost of opening that interaction was very very high. Some work eliminated the other possibles who might of sent it. After a lot more work I got the site to admit that it was just a randomly generated e-mail that was sent to a mailing list they had purchased.
I seriously considered a law suit simply to express my serious crossness (which I did with a lot of e-mails, which did get them to end the policy at least). I Didn't sue, as the hassle seemed too big, and that the site folded due to lack of funds a few months later. 🙂
Don't strain your brain on who this might be. Reply with a friendly letter if you can, and put it out of your head. If a person who likes you is out there, they will come forward if they can find the courage if you answered them... if not, well that's life. And if they are not real... then nothing lost.
Myriads
A few years back I got a letter from a 'secret someone' from a site that ended up causing some serious complications in my life when I followed it up with the person whom I though sent it. It was not them, and the cost of opening that interaction was very very high. Some work eliminated the other possibles who might of sent it. After a lot more work I got the site to admit that it was just a randomly generated e-mail that was sent to a mailing list they had purchased.
I seriously considered a law suit simply to express my serious crossness (which I did with a lot of e-mails, which did get them to end the policy at least). I Didn't sue, as the hassle seemed too big, and that the site folded due to lack of funds a few months later. 🙂
Don't strain your brain on who this might be. Reply with a friendly letter if you can, and put it out of your head. If a person who likes you is out there, they will come forward if they can find the courage if you answered them... if not, well that's life. And if they are not real... then nothing lost.
Myriads
Yeah, i've considered that it might be an attempt to get me to use their site. I don't have to pay, though, so I don't see any reason for them to do that..well, besides getting people to just use the site. But , part of the terms of service is that no one can list someone who they don't actually like.
Still...If I find out this is all a bunch of crap just to get people to use that site...oh man, I'll make sure it backfires bad. I'll post on every singles thing the reasons to NOT go to that site. ...and I might threaten to sue. Just to annoy them almost as much as they might annoy me. lol
Still...If I find out this is all a bunch of crap just to get people to use that site...oh man, I'll make sure it backfires bad. I'll post on every singles thing the reasons to NOT go to that site. ...and I might threaten to sue. Just to annoy them almost as much as they might annoy me. lol
giggleygirl25
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i had the same problem with a site that was one of those "somebody has a crush on you"...the first time i gave out all the possible guys i could then i took a step back and the next time asked the people i knew whether they had done this...they said no...it was a thing to get people on their mailing list..now i just delete them
I think that might be the same thing happening to me. I asked the people running the site if there was any way I could find out who my admirer was other than guessing. Know what response I got? The same crap that most places give you "Welcome to someonelikesyou.com. We hope you find your secret admirer, " blah blah blah and all that other usesless crap...AND OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T EVEN ANSWER MY QUESTION!
I wonder if their asses could be sued for doing exactly what they ask members NOT to do: sending out stuff like that to people they don't even like. I probably wouldn't sue...but then again, maybe I would. Would be nice to see that site go down...and my $$ go up.
I wonder if their asses could be sued for doing exactly what they ask members NOT to do: sending out stuff like that to people they don't even like. I probably wouldn't sue...but then again, maybe I would. Would be nice to see that site go down...and my $$ go up.
Guess what.....
If you guys get anything from someonelikesyou.com....don't fall for their crap. I just talked to someone who I KNOW likes me and who I have on my list on that site. She put in my name and four others in the area where she had to guess...and guess what...NONE of the names she put showed up as matches...INCLUDING MINE. That just pisses me off when people who have those websites do that shit. It's even worse than those "free" personals sites where only posting an ad is free.
If you guys get anything from someonelikesyou.com....don't fall for their crap. I just talked to someone who I KNOW likes me and who I have on my list on that site. She put in my name and four others in the area where she had to guess...and guess what...NONE of the names she put showed up as matches...INCLUDING MINE. That just pisses me off when people who have those websites do that shit. It's even worse than those "free" personals sites where only posting an ad is free.
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How the crush link conspiracy works
I figured out how the crush link conspiracy worked because this happened to a former roommate of mine who went NUTS thinking someone was having a crush on her, and she feared her boyfriend was going to be super jealous and kick his ass.
Here is the scam:
(using ficticious names and addresses for simplicity sake)
Bob gets an email from crushlink saying, someone has a crush on you, go here to find out.
Bob goes to the site. Now the site won't say who has the crush but has a hint page. The hint page gives a vague range of who it could be "Maybe it's a coworker Bob, or someone you met at a club..."
Then it gives bob a place to put five email addresses and the system will tell Bob if he guessed it.
so Bob enters the email addresses of
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
they system will then say if one of those people has a crush on him. It won't say who! If none are right then he'll have to keep entering emails.
this is the evil bit!
each of the people Bob suspected of having a crush now gets an email stating that someone has a crush on them.
So let's take [email protected]. She logs in and also enters five names. If Bob is one of those people he won't get another email (other systems may be different), but everyone else will. So if you don't do "tag backs..."
Round 1) 1 person gets the email
Round 2) 5 people get an email
Round 3) 25 people get an email
Round 4) 125 people get an email
Round 5) 625 people get an email...
These systems don't need to get emails from a list! You do it FOR THEM!
I'm sure they may spam a few emails as seeds to keep it going.
And by the way... there is NOTHING on their site that helps anyone find a crush or boyfriend or girlfriend. All it does is create a list of VALIDATED email addresses to sell to spamers!
I figured out how the crush link conspiracy worked because this happened to a former roommate of mine who went NUTS thinking someone was having a crush on her, and she feared her boyfriend was going to be super jealous and kick his ass.
Here is the scam:
(using ficticious names and addresses for simplicity sake)
Bob gets an email from crushlink saying, someone has a crush on you, go here to find out.
Bob goes to the site. Now the site won't say who has the crush but has a hint page. The hint page gives a vague range of who it could be "Maybe it's a coworker Bob, or someone you met at a club..."
Then it gives bob a place to put five email addresses and the system will tell Bob if he guessed it.
so Bob enters the email addresses of
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
they system will then say if one of those people has a crush on him. It won't say who! If none are right then he'll have to keep entering emails.
this is the evil bit!
each of the people Bob suspected of having a crush now gets an email stating that someone has a crush on them.
So let's take [email protected]. She logs in and also enters five names. If Bob is one of those people he won't get another email (other systems may be different), but everyone else will. So if you don't do "tag backs..."
Round 1) 1 person gets the email
Round 2) 5 people get an email
Round 3) 25 people get an email
Round 4) 125 people get an email
Round 5) 625 people get an email...
These systems don't need to get emails from a list! You do it FOR THEM!
I'm sure they may spam a few emails as seeds to keep it going.
And by the way... there is NOTHING on their site that helps anyone find a crush or boyfriend or girlfriend. All it does is create a list of VALIDATED email addresses to sell to spamers!
giggleygirl25
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grrrr crushlink😡 thats the one that was sending me stuff...now i just delete their junk...
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Sounds like someone is in desperate need of a good ol' Alex Warfield beating.
Websites such as these are a complete joke, and it amazes me that jerks that run them spend more time trying to fuck over people than they probably do worrying about their own miserable little lives.
Websites such as these are a complete joke, and it amazes me that jerks that run them spend more time trying to fuck over people than they probably do worrying about their own miserable little lives.
even more complicated...
Actually, it's even MORE complicated. You enter 5 e-mails for the FIRST hint. It will be very vague.
You need a second. To get a second hint, you must enter another list of 5 e-mails, ten all together. You only get another vague hint.
But when you get to the third or fourth one, it get's rough. You must enter 5 DIFFERENT e-mails every time, but then after three times, you must enter 5 more e-mails AND subscribe to a gambling site. It only gives you the third hint after you fully subscribe, too, you can't get out of it. Then you get a third VAGUE hint.
So that equation Bagelfather gave is kind of wrong, because in order to receive 5 hints as to who it is, you must enter 25 different e-mail addresses! And five hints isn't enough! (Hints are like: There are 4 letters in the first part of the e-mail. Hint 2: There are less than 10 letters in the second part of the e-mail address.) And each hint you give, you must register with a gambling site, telephone company, or some other SPAM site, that can send all those e-mails wherever they like. That's where all that unsolicited e-mail everyone complains about comes from. (I'm sure that can start a whole new thread.)
Actually, it's even MORE complicated. You enter 5 e-mails for the FIRST hint. It will be very vague.
You need a second. To get a second hint, you must enter another list of 5 e-mails, ten all together. You only get another vague hint.
But when you get to the third or fourth one, it get's rough. You must enter 5 DIFFERENT e-mails every time, but then after three times, you must enter 5 more e-mails AND subscribe to a gambling site. It only gives you the third hint after you fully subscribe, too, you can't get out of it. Then you get a third VAGUE hint.
So that equation Bagelfather gave is kind of wrong, because in order to receive 5 hints as to who it is, you must enter 25 different e-mail addresses! And five hints isn't enough! (Hints are like: There are 4 letters in the first part of the e-mail. Hint 2: There are less than 10 letters in the second part of the e-mail address.) And each hint you give, you must register with a gambling site, telephone company, or some other SPAM site, that can send all those e-mails wherever they like. That's where all that unsolicited e-mail everyone complains about comes from. (I'm sure that can start a whole new thread.)
Alex Warfield said:
I'd do worse..(if it were legal. lol ) I'd give the person running sites like this a beating so bad that it'd make Batman look like a sissy. I wonder how hard I'd have to ram his/her face into the computer before it makes a nice dent?
Biggles of 266
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I never got any spam until I gave CrushLink my email address. Don't sign up for these things! Resist the temptation to maybe find out that the hot girl in your monday morning lecture loves you! Don't give in to their promises of happiness!
Bastards, all of them...
Bastards, all of them...
TicklingDuo
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This is why...
When I set up a yahoo group, I block viewing of the members listing. Half of the spam I've gotten over the years has been traced back to yahoo groups. For those here who have their own groups, I HIGHLY recommend setting your options to block viewing of member lists from all but the owner/moderaters.
I've gotten those secret admirer things several times. I just delete them. I figure that, if they don't know me enough to tell me themself, I don't care to read it.
Ann
When I set up a yahoo group, I block viewing of the members listing. Half of the spam I've gotten over the years has been traced back to yahoo groups. For those here who have their own groups, I HIGHLY recommend setting your options to block viewing of member lists from all but the owner/moderaters.
I've gotten those secret admirer things several times. I just delete them. I figure that, if they don't know me enough to tell me themself, I don't care to read it.
Ann
