I just signed up on this site because I have just officially been SCAMMED

I hope people reading this will:
1. Avoid being trapped the same way.
2. Possibly point out how I can send these people BEHIND BARS WHERE THEY BELONG.

You can also call me stupid if you like.

I put up a couple websites, built some software, wrote an ebook and enjoyed some decent success. I looked for a way to kick it up a notch. I decided to promote my project management freeware application to students. I thought the best way to do that was an opt-in email campaign.

Perhaps the idea wasn't bad: free product that really helps, a couple affiliate ads and some adsense...

I looked into companies that offered this and saw through a few obvious scams like www.spamfreeadvertising.com (If you use Alexa, check out the comments you'll laugh.

I found a company that actually had a physical address, a real phone number and a clean Better Business Bureau record, or so I thought.

I started getting doubts when they used gmail to send me their proposal, hesitated a couple weeks and took the plunge anyway.

To keep the story short, I'll just say that their campaign stats were nothing close to what my webstats and google pageview output were telling me. In a minute I knew I was screwed :eek: .

I won't rant on about how the phone calls went, I'm sure you can imagine. The proposal is legally worthless (I could have sent it to myself).

I'm in for a $1100 net loss, + the phone calls (long distance).

Then I did what I should have done before, look deeper. They move every six months and have a BBB record for each address. The past ones aren't clean, obviously. BAM!

It'll take me months to recover from that and actually do some advertising that works.

STAY AWAY FROM EXPEDITE
or any website with the word expedite in it.

Unfortunately they rank high in google under "email marketing", so these people are making a BUNDLE of scam money (enough for quite a few people to live on apparently, + the occasional move from one town to the next).

Any suggestion will be highly welcomed!