MasteryTV’s Tom Wood: Biggest Spammer in My Inbox

Written by Rosalind Gardner on November 29, 2006 · Comments (4)
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I signed up as a MasteryTV affiliate partner when it first launched and I’ve been trying to get off Tom Wood’s list ever since.

In every email he sends there is a link labelled “Immediate and Permanent Removal from Mailings”. I’ve clicked that link (which is coded with my email address) each time I receive spam from Mr. Wood, and yet the crap still arrives week after week after *&/=@! week.

I’ve phoned the MasteryTV offices twice and both times left a message. Yet, still the mail comes.

OK, so Tom Wood is a SPAMMER. But more interesting is the fact that his affiliate program has been replaced with a ‘refer a friend’ link.

What a neat trick. Get affiliates to promote your site, then remove the program so they can’t earn anything and THEN spam the heck out of them.

All-round nice guy that Tom Wood.

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4 Responses to “MasteryTV’s Tom Wood: Biggest Spammer in My Inbox”

CDLauryl on November 30th, 2006 19:04 pm

To be honest, I never heard of the guy before, but when I found his site…
1. it looks terrible in Opera
2. it screams scam/overhype to me. Maybe that’s just me, since the stereotypical web “infoproduct sales page” does the same. (I bought your book because I subscribed to the email newsletter for a while and got enough info there to become convinced your writing was worth the money. Those ubiquitous long sales pages are actually a turn-off for me. Might be why I’m not a great affiliate marketer…)

Anyway, as a geek, I’m into problem-solving, so if you haven’t already found another way to get his spam out of your face:

I don’t know which email program you use, but I like to use Incredimail (which unfortunately doesn’t have an affiliate progam as far as I can tell, but it’s at Incredimail.com) because it allows me to bounce unwanted email back to the source as if my email address does not exist. Doesn’t always persuade them to quit sending, but I find it more satisfying, kind of like sending snail-mail junk back in their postage-paid envelope. I don’t know what (if any) other email programs also bounce email like this.

Also, MESSAGE RULES (aka filters)! Set up your message rules/filters to send all email from that sender (or with his signature subject line) directly to the trash so you don’t have to see it. Pretty much every email program has this capability now, and it makes life so much easier than sorting all that email yourself. Plus, you don’t have to get raised blood pressure when you see that, once again, the spammer has sent you unwanted junk.

Of course, venting about it probably helps, too;)

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Rosalind Gardner on December 1st, 2006 7:26 am

Hi CDLauryl,

Venting / carping helps a LOT!

Oh, I could (and have) filtered his messages to the Trash in Eudora. Still takes up space and forces me to empty the trash. What cheeses me most is that the guy is a spammer pretending to be an affiliate manager and a merchant, ie. no ethics at all. Affiliates need to know about cheaters like him.

Cheers,
Ros

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