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05/30/2006 12:33:00 AM · #26 |
I got an e-mail as well, but the Spider Awards (a fairly large juried competition for B/W photography) were actually recommended to me as a legitimate, respected organization by Dangenart Gallery in Nashville, TN. There is a fee for entering the contest...
Just my 2 cents... ;-)
EDIT: At least I did think it was a legitimate, respected organization, until it spammed all of DPC... ROFL
Message edited by author 2006-05-30 00:37:49. |
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05/30/2006 12:35:06 AM · #27 |
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05/30/2006 12:40:09 AM · #28 |
Why do you all jump to the conclusion that because you have to pay to enter that it is a scam? Surely most competitions would require a fee. My local show charges $10 per entry and thats just judged by the local mayor...
Have a look at the website, there are some great photos on there. Makes me never want to shoot colour again
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05/30/2006 12:47:25 AM · #29 |
| yep me to deleted without reading coz it looked suspect. |
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05/30/2006 12:49:23 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by dr_timbo:
Why do you all jump to the conclusion that because you have to pay to enter that it is a scam? Surely most competitions would require a fee. My local show charges $10 per entry and thats just judged by the local mayor... |
You're right about the fee however, spaming everyone in the free world should raise a lot of eyebrows. I don't get spam from other fee based photo contests and I get about 500 spam emails a day on average. Spamming 99% of the time equals not reputable.
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05/30/2006 01:05:46 AM · #31 |
When it looked like all of DPC was being hit with this thing, I checked into it a little further since it looked like a potential ToS violation. Before anyone gets their panties in a wad that I dared to wonder about the site's integrity, I actually thought it more likely that a database was cracked somewhere. However, my hit did not come to the address I have registered with DPC, so it looks like they had a spider crawl through grabbing addresses from profiles and attached websites. How appropriate that it's called the Spider Awards, eh?
I am deeply suspicious of any contest that goes to such lengths to drum up business.
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05/30/2006 01:40:43 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
When it looked like all of DPC was being hit with this thing, I checked into it a little further since it looked like a potential ToS violation. Before anyone gets their panties in a wad that I dared to wonder about the site's integrity, I actually thought it more likely that a database was cracked somewhere. However, my hit did not come to the address I have registered with DPC, so it looks like they had a spider crawl through grabbing addresses from profiles and attached websites. How appropriate that it's called the Spider Awards, eh?
I am deeply suspicious of any contest that goes to such lengths to drum up business. |
Very interestng Karma. I actually got it sent to my website's contact email, not my pm or personal email. So...I don't know what that means. I mean, how would they get that if there was a crawl done on DPC. I don't really care, just press the old delete button I say.
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05/30/2006 02:05:39 AM · #33 |
| I got one to my e-mail addy that's attached to my website, but not the one that's associated with DP, which is cool because i don't have mine posted in my profile. |
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05/30/2006 02:31:52 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by Pedro:
I got one to my e-mail addy that's attached to my website, but not the one that's associated with DP, which is cool because i don't have mine posted in my profile. |
Same thing with me. Like what Karmabreeze said they probably just harvest emails in general directly from people's web sites and not from here.
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05/30/2006 05:40:41 AM · #35 |
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05/30/2006 05:42:06 AM · #36 |
I got one... the website does look for real though so I broke a cardinal rule and fired off a 'don't spam me' email to them.
'If this competition is legitimate,
you would do better not to spam massive amounts of photographers who might otherwise be interested if you advertised using less questionable means.
Bob Rose'
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05/30/2006 05:52:30 AM · #37 |
| Got one too, hate these spam emails, hopefully noone will fall for this scam so I am answering this thread to keep this up on the front page. |
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05/30/2006 06:21:22 AM · #38 |
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05/30/2006 06:40:53 AM · #39 |
| I got one - to the address I use for DPC, I dont have a website listed on here. Seems they use a mix of both strategies. |
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05/30/2006 08:31:54 AM · #40 |
Mine came to the address which is on my webpage, but only as part of an image, so it couldn't be auto-harvested from there. My money is on somebody (certainly not DPC) selling their database. One of the microstock sites maybe? I haven't used this address in (m)any other places.
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05/30/2006 08:53:54 AM · #41 |
| Hmmmm....My states B&W Spider Aw... I belong to a B&W site, don't think it came from here....Hmmmm |
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05/30/2006 08:59:21 AM · #42 |
Got one too. I had tossed it without even looking, but recalled the title when I read this.
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05/30/2006 09:01:03 AM · #43 |
Originally posted by bod:
Mine came to the address which is on my webpage, but only as part of an image, so it couldn't be auto-harvested from there. My money is on somebody (certainly not DPC) selling their database. One of the microstock sites maybe? I haven't used this address in (m)any other places. |
It has to be a spider, but it can't be from microstock. I don't do microstock, and when I register for sites I custom tailor the registration address specifically so I can see who has been violating their ToS. With DPC, I believe I've got "dpchallenge @ mydomain .com" since everything not tied to a real address just gets bounced into a default catch-all account. If it actually does generate legitimate mail, I'll create the account with a forward order to my personal address. And when the spam starts rolling in, all I have to do is see what address it was sent to.
This one came to the info address attached to my website, which is linked up to my profile. A spider can be directed to harvest all addresses at a specific site with a secondary direction to scan the front page of all websites linked to the site as well. Which is why if you have your address in your profile, it went there, and if you don't list email but do list a URL, it went there instead. Make more sense now?
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05/30/2006 09:06:11 AM · #44 |
I got one also but on an email account that I never use, I only use it for business photography and again never used it for anything else. All my other accounts that I use regularly I did not get that email
so I deleted it and marked it as junk mail.
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05/30/2006 09:27:48 AM · #45 |
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05/30/2006 09:40:35 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
This one came to the info address attached to my website, which is linked up to my profile. A spider can be directed to harvest all addresses at a specific site with a secondary direction to scan the front page of all websites linked to the site as well. Which is why if you have your address in your profile, it went there, and if you don't list email but do list a URL, it went there instead. Make more sense now? |
I don't list an email here.
The only email address on my website is part of a jpeg image so can't be spidered.
I love repeating myself ; )
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05/30/2006 09:42:05 AM · #47 |
I also got it and discard it as spam.
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06/29/2006 10:27:55 AM · #48 |
OK - this thread hasn't been hit for a month ... but i just got the e-mail that's giving me 3 days 'til the end of THIS month ... since the same thing happened LAST month, I'm thinking they just want my money... as do I !!!! I was actually going to ask DPC members whether i should enter and then i saw this thread.
Anyone else??
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06/29/2006 10:37:27 AM · #49 |
ditto...
This would be my second notice from the spider guys... |
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06/29/2006 10:37:47 AM · #50 |
I've been getting it about once a month. Even if it's legit, it sounds like a massive waste of money. How many entries will they receive if they're spam-bombing everyone on the planet who ever admitted to owning a camera? The chances of anything coming of it are astronomically slim. Your chances are probably better with a lottery ticket.
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