I'm always amazed by the efforts of some people.

My feelings are so hurt, that was me.  :)  Just kidding.  Those are sooo annoying.  Thanks for bringing it up Teri!

Hmmm my friend, there is a lot of spam going around and I am sick of it.  When I talk to you on the phone you are going to be amazed at the potential of lead generation for you and you will just trash anything that looks suspicious on the spot because you will have so many good leads!

Teri, when you have a solid Internet presence the "dark side" seems to always find you unfortunately too. An agent in my office was getting some emails from someone called Chicken Liver. I am so fast with the DELETE key and using Caller ID myself.

Hi Terri, I haven't had one of these.  Just wondering, however, about your blog site now.  It takes a bit to pull up and then I have to see RED til my eyes hurt.  Is that because you are the lady in red and for emphasis or is it part of personalizing blogs? 

Rich just wrote a post this am about spamming on the referral section. Why people continue to use that as a "me..me....and all about me" thing is beyond me.

I have only received a few of these.  For me, I think I will refer directly to the agent myself.

It is sad that people would try and ruin such a great thing with their ignorance. Those people using the referral section as their own personal spamming section should be deleted and blocked from AR....I would report them to AR.

What you are not jumping at the chance to give away 50% of your income??

I have had several of them the last couple of days.. Stupid requests from new people as well.. Kind of annoying.

George, well I, for one don't even get it. They sign up and then spam.......???? Hellllllllloooooooo!!! Not good.

Stephanie, I generally just shrug them off.......but today, I was sick of seeing them - for Pete's sake!!! This IS a professional blogging group, right? ;-)

George, I'm looking forward to visiting with you..........soon, I hope. ;-)

Gary, I just think it's really weird that they're putting in their names and phone numbers, etc. OR do you think they're fake? ;-(

Barbara, so sorry your eyes hurt......it's the new look. Haven't you succumbed to the Active Rain Blog customizer - and yes, I LOVE red..........maybe sunglasses will help. ;-)

Sally, that's weird, I didn't see Rich's post. I looked around to see if anyone was posting about this so finally jumped into the frey. I did send at least three of them to AR as spam. ;-)

Audrey, that's a good idea - too. I was going to, but they didn't even have a blog post........I could, of course, send a rather strong message on their contact section? Yup, I'll do that too........;-) Just wondered if anyone else was having such a problem today. ;-)

Dione, I agree and I did. Thanks. ;-)

Nick, very.........annoying! I suspect they don't know any better. ;-)  Or maybe they do? ;-)

TERI, I have thought about deleting the referral I set up in Active Rain as I have received a number of what I thought were bogus referrals.  Several agents have just put on a listing they wanted to sell.

Teri...I've gotten up to 6 from the same person in a day about 15-20 minutes apart.  Definite SPAM to me and truly ANNOYING!  We get these SPAM referrals about 5-8 a day.

C. Lange

not sure if I should be jealous or thankful - I think I will say - thankfully I have not gotten them... looks like spam to me

Did you see the post Rich did about people not using the referrals properly?  I guess some of us don't read the instructions.  

Marchel, every now and then I get a "real" referral, but this has been ridiculous!!!

Michael, yup.........same thing.

Thesa, thankful.........they're just spam.

Doreen, no - I looked before I posted this.........but I had sent some messages for two or three of them to AR. Maybe that's what prompted him to post. ;-)

Melina, sorry, I missed you. Can't have that! ;-) I think they were willing to pay ME -yeah, right? ;-)

If it taste like SPAM, looks like

 SPAM, (smells like SPAM), I think we

 have a winner!  It's SPAM!

Good morning Terri - It looks like Candace has summed up this whole situation pretty well :)

SPAM sucks...I hate it when people do it via email...but, on AR, that sucks.

Teri,
No doubt about it, it is SPAM.  My finger moves to Delete very quickly.

So . . . Teri, the question is if I respond to your post, will I start getting this short sale spam? LOL. Naw, if I was gonna get it, I'd get it by now. Yoink. Famous last words.

Might see if you can snag an IP address, Teri, and contact the internet service provider of the originator as well. I've gotten a few Nigerian emails through Active Rain telling me that I've been entrusted with millions of dollars because of a failed coup in North Eastern Afrcia or some place like that, and they want to wire me the proceeds of the national treasury if I would just send them a name and an address. :-)

Candace, very cute. ;-)

Bill, you're right, but it gets annoying. ;-)

Cynthia, I delete as well; however, those that send those emails don't know that it's considered spam. Go figure! 

Elizabeth, yep....it might just be catching. ;-)

David, I think the people are real, but they've signed up on AR, and then through the referral window, solicit referrals from those of us signed up. Maybe I'll sign off! ;-)

Looks like spam to me but I bet someone takes a bite and doesn't like it any better then the real thing.

Denise, to me it's spam....when I wrote to one of the young men, he didn't "get" it. ;-)

Totally looks likes SPAM to me....its a shame that that AR has to get clogged up with crap like this...such a waste of time for everyone.

Laura, agreed. Very annoying....;-)

I received them as well. I think it was very much an Arizona agents thing. I tried to give the sender the benefit of doubt... maybe they don't understand the system very well? However... then I received one of four times in quick succession- which made me wonder if AR was multiposting these as well. I guess when it comes to spam I've lost the fight... I'm just become a very quick deleter these days. :-)

Chuck, good to know. I thought it might be an Arizona thing. I was getting a bit tired of the intrusion to be honest.  When I mentioned it to a couple of them, they were dumbfounded as to why it was a big deal. ;-)