A couple of weeks ago, I was on this site and got a pop up for some sort of sports related prize for some survey time. Okay call me stupid, but I thought with it being on this site it would be interesting. I click and the results are one of those never ending Q & As that end up with wanting to get some sort of personal info on you. I x out without giving that info, but the damage was done. Now I'm getting 20 to 30 pieces of spam garbage a day, the same thing that made me close out my first email address. This time, though, I've been trying to "Unsubscribe" to each one of these things with no results. In fact they seem to just keep coming more and more each day.
I've been a proud member of the PDGA for 20 yrs. and I understood the basics behind putting all the advertising on this site for support, but the additional sell out to spam lists has really cheapened the site altogether. Enough said.

Skip! You should know better! The PDGA sells advertising space on this web site, but they don't have any control once you click over to the advertiser's web site. It's unfortunate that survey web site sold/shared your email address with other entities.

Here's little tip going forward: don't reply to spam emails and don't click their "unsubscribe" links. This simply tells a spammer they have a live fish on the end of the hook. I learned this first hand.

I remember the first couple of years I owned a computer and surfed the internet. Every time I would get spam, I would scroll to the bottom and click the provided link, requesting to be removed from their mailing list. I did this for nearly two years, yet I continued to wonder why I would keep getting more and more spam in my inbox.....like over 1,000 spam emails a week! Had I not replied to any of those emails, chances are I wouldn't have had to quit using my Yahoo! email and switch to another provider. :p

I switched over to gmail with Google and I am happy to report that I have received no spam over the past couple of years. Me = happy camper.