Throw Away E-mail

Martha, over on the great blog Work at Home Momma, recently posted this comment about wasting time requesting information from sites that offer potential business opportunities. In particular she mentions being bombarded with e-mail spam the minute she tries to get the details. It's a well known fact among online business operators that addresses are like gold. That's why sites are set up to get those names on a list that can be sold. The good sites are carefully constructed to provide as little information as possible so the visitor has no choice but to sign up before they know what they can get. That's not to say there isn't a good opportunity available behind that curtain. But we all have to be smart enough to realize what they are doing. Protect yourself and you'll be okay. Try getting a free "throw away" e-mail account to use when requesting information from these sites. That way when the spam starts coming - and it will - you can just switch to a new account when it gets to be too much to handle.