What You See is Not Always What You Get

Sometimes your eyes can deceive you. Like a magician performing their latest magic trick, a new eMail program has arrived on the scene that is not what it seems. Folks are getting tricked into joining this eMail blocker called Boxbe without realizing what they are getting into.

People are receiving notices after they send someone an eMail that their message cannot be delivered because they are not a member of the recipient’s “group”.

The message looks like an attempt to verify you as a real sender, but it is really an under-handed trick to get you to join Boxbe.

“Boxbe” is a clever list builder which forces people to join the list. It is marketed as an inbox-cleaner/spam-blocker.

When you join, everyone who tries to send you a message are informed that they must join Boxbe in order to get their message delivered to you.

This may seem like a good idea, but do you really want people to have to jump through hoops to contact you?

Not if you’re in business or want to stay connected, you don’t!

Plus, you won’t receive valuable newsletters & broadcasts that you’ve subscribed to. (Auto-responders and mass-mailers do not join Boxbe!)

The easiest way to deal with spam is the delete button. You can mass-select spam and hit delete once – and it’s all gone!

Again, Boxbe is a very clever list builder – but it’s not your list, it’s Boxbe’s.

You can bet that they’ll sell that list once it’s huge enough and they’ll sell it to Boxbe members.

Then a new breed of spam will be born – Boxbe spam!

If you’ve been considering joining Boxbe, don’t! If you joined Boxbe, go to their site and opt-out.

If you can’t opt-out, then you’ll need a new eMail address (get one free at Google) – and re-subscribe to all your lists.

Don’t fall for this magician’s sleight of hand!