Wow, so that's audacious.

[agilebrit]

Someone named "Eve Pearce" spammed contacted me today out of the blue to see if I wanted her to provide me some "content" for my LJ--at no cost! (bolding hers) Right. Because I'd want to pay someone else to put things here? Why? This is my personal blog. I write my own damn content.

Not only that, she's "working on behalf of one of her business clients," whom she would link to in her articles "in a related and subtle manner." Wait, what? Seems to me that if I'm providing the platform for their ads, then shouldn't they be paying me? Especially since this is an account I pay for.

So, basically, she wants to use my LJ to advertise her stuff and not pay me--and she thinks she can fool me into thinking she's doing me a favor. Wow.

Nice work if you can get it. Dude, get your own LJ and put your own content on it. You don't even have to get a paid account, and that way I'm not waking up to something like this in my inbox.

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Good Grief!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It was slick, I'll give her that. I'm automatically suspicious of things like this, plus I'm really not their market. But I thought I'd put the word out.

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Wow, weird. But maybe that's reason for hope that LJ's not dying as everyone's always saying it is?

(I know, I'm grasping at straws here . . . )

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It makes me wonder if she grabbed it off my twitter, to be honest.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

as everyone's always saying it is

Ah yes - a friend and I were looking back to where everyone was certain it would only last another week or two, and we were all desperately trying to move our journals to a clone... in 2005.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! I remember getting a GreatestJournal account. Now GJ is gone and LJ is still here.

I have cloned this LJ, Ben's, and Kemi's over to DW, but really, that's just a precaution.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

And then there was insane journal, too... although that still exists, I think.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Yah, that's still there, and I've snagged icons from it a time or two. But it seems like everyone picked DW as the go-to alternative, so that's where I'm parked for the moment.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Always a new way to scam. I like the angle that they're doing you a favor!