Does anyone know anything about this "opportunity to win $10,000,000 and sign up a friend" deal?  Is there any chance that it's a propagating worm that sends out e-mails on one's behalf without one's knowledge?

Maxi 

As some doctors sometime do I have decided to make a heroic sacrifice and try everything on myself: I went to Tenspot.com and registered there.

As a result I have already received two messages of the following kind:

One may ask how I know it came via Tenspot.com? I'm not going to explain it here but believe me I know how to trace it and I'm 100% sure it came if not from then via Tenspot.com.

I suppose this is just the very first stage of my "opportunity to win $10,000,000" but I definitely won't "sign up a friend". My ranting about 'heroic sacrifice' above is just a joke: I simply do know perfectly well how to deal with all those Tenspot.coms and there's no risk for me but many of my friends don't know it. I can prevent these marketeers from contacting me at any moment but many of my friends can't do it and thus their email-boxes will be flooded with spam from Tenspot.com forever.

The one and only purpose of Tenspot.com and similar 'real contests' is to fish out your name, email address, phone number, etc.

In the ad above there's the following phrase: "You can unsubscribe by clicking here." NEVER do it: by clicking it you will only show the spammer that your email address is real and working and the quantity of spam you receive will be multiplied soon.

NK

P.S. for Mr Jim Garvey:

Originally written by Jim Garvey on March 22, 2005 12:42 AM www.Tenspot.com a real contest. They also give away $1,000 a week -- my buddy Cody won a few weeks ago.

Dear Mr Garvey,

There are only two options: you are either a very naive person or a trickster. Taking into consideration the mentioning of your lucky 'buddy Cody' I tend to think you are the latter... 

Hi folks,

It's me again with some updates.

Several minutes ago I was happy to receive my third today's message of the 'Earn a degree in 10 months from AIU Online!' kind from Tenspot.com.

But that's not all: I have to add some interesting details to the story about Mr Garvey and his bosom buddy Cody.

It turned out that Mr Garvey's email address ends with @jtllc.com. As jtllc.com isn't Hotmail, Yahoo or any other free webmail service ready available to anybody we can quite naturally presume that a person who uses a corporate email address has something to do with the website this address is originated from. So let's go and see what www.jtllc.com is and what the connection there is between Mr Garvey, the web site in question and our story.

On the home page of that web site we see the following:

Oh! What a surprise: we see the familiar 'real contest'! How unexpected! But now we can understand where Mr Garvey's enthusiasm concerning Tenspot.com comes from...

On the Portfolio page of www.jtllc.com we can see the following:

My compliments, Mr Garvey, on the great project in your portfolio. And please pass my warmest regards to your old buddy Cody...

NK

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A little update: I have already got 9 spam messages via Tenspot.com. And in all of them I did what I categorically don't recommend you to do: I've clicked the link to unsubscribe... out of educational interest... a sacrifice should be sacrificial...

NK

Thanks for the sacrifice, Nik!

It pays to have friends!!!

Adriana