Don’t Use A Sex Offender Alert As A Sales Technique
There’s a special place in hell for the marketer who created and sent me the following email:
From: V2020 [info@v2020.net]
Subject: Todd Mintz, you have 1 new Offender Locator alert
Hello Todd Mintz,
A new alert is available from V 20/20′s Facebook Offender Locator Application.
Click the link below to view this alert.
http://www.govision2020.com/emails/fb-90.html
Feel free to click the link and let me know if I’m being a little harsh on these folks.
Yeah, I vaguely remember opting into this application and probably consented to receiving email from them. However, I will correct that error shortly.
Wow…that is pretty screwed up. That is actually a good idea as a community service…to bad it was bogus.
I noticed the Offender Locator app the other day, by all means I am NOT defending the sex offenders. With that said, many of these sex offenders are/were 18 year old boys that had sex with a 17 or 16 year old girlfriends, then her parents found out and didn’t approve, regardless that it was consensual.
Maybe it’s ok to have a website that people can look up offenders, but all marketing of such should be illegal.