Warning! Looks Like a Scammer to me! [RE-wrenches]

Wed Oct 15 00:24:38 PDT 2003

Brother Wrenches:

I received an e-mail from a "Paul Leonard of InfoMedia" today.  This was
after hearing from two other Wrenches that they had received the same
e-mail and asking my thoughts.

Well, when I got home tonite, this thing was in my Inbox and I read it
and...Well, I just thought to myself...Self, this is SCAM SPAM.

I have not checked into the purported "offer to subsidize me".... Nor
will I.  Something about a "Director of Marketing" sending me spam....
"Please forward to the proper desk"????..... How many dadgummed desks
does he think I have here????  If they're such a good "Marketing"
company, why don't they reach the right desk in the first place?  And a
presentation in Word?  Nah!  Can't be too bright... Know what I mean?

I decided to reply directly to the "Sender"... Content of my reply as
well as the original e-mail sent to me is below in case you got one and
were thinking about it.

It is my hope that none of us falls prey to the "Quick Bucks
Mentality"... Or even wastes our time responding to it.  We have enough
to do without selling our souls.

There won't be any free lunches until next week!  Or is the week after?
I'll have to check my calendar.... Nope!  I was wrong... It's the week
after next!  LOL

Keep the Sunny Side UP!  (For those new to Solar...That means, no upside
down modules or collectors!  Yes, I saw one!)

Matt Lafferty 
Universal Energies Institute 
mlafferty at universalenergies.com 
(916) 422-9772 
(916) 628-7694 Cell 
(916) 914-2247 Fax 
www.universalenergies.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Lafferty [mailto:mlafferty at universalenergies.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:33 PM
To: 'Paul Leonard of InfoMedia'
Subject: RE: Solar Industry Subsidy

Paul:

I'm not a fan of spam.  Spam to me is e-mail that is sent to me for the
purpose of soliciting business without a direct request from myself.

One clue that I have received Spam from your organization is the e-mail
you sent me that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with my business or
business model.  You know nothing about "a business such as yours" when
it comes to me!  Since I've already been asked by two associates today,
via phone correspondence, if I've ever heard of you and what I thought,
I regard you and your likes to be scum!  Plain and simple.

I work very hard on behalf of the PV Industry to protect our future from
the likes of "Quick Bucks Scammers" such as yourself.  Go crawl back
under the rock you slithered from!

I will publish a warning about your attempted scamming of good and
decent folks before your squinty eyes see the light of day tomorrow!

Pray for Sun!
Matt Lafferty 
Universal Energies Institute 
mlafferty at universalenergies.com 
(916) 422-9772 
(916) 628-7694 Cell 
(916) 914-2247 Fax 
www.universalenergies.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Leonard of InfoMedia [mailto:paulleonard at communiworks.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:27 PM
To: MLAFFERTY at UNIVERSALENERGIES.COM
Subject: Solar Industry Subsidy

Dear Matt,

We at InfoMedia realize how important "subsidy "is to the solar
industry; as a result we are offering to subsidize you as the "First
User" in your region to take advantage of our "Selling Solution"
approach to reaching your target audience.

InfoMedia is a unique marketing communications system that creates and
develops strategies and solutions that make sales and marketing efforts
more effective and business goals more easily achievable.

This next generation selling system approach is accomplished by merging
powerful media tools into a customized Selling Solution that allow a
business such as yours to:

 * Reduces the time and expense for sales recruiting, training and
management

 * Allow remote selling resulting in higher closing ratios

 * Enables extension into remote regions without the typical costs of
expansion

 * Achieves larger sales volumes in shorter periods of time

 * Higher cost to benefit ratios than traditional marketing and media
efforts

If you would like more information about this dynamic concept, we would
be happy to explain it in more detail. Please call me at 415.608.9460.
If you prefer I can email you our presentation as a Word document or as
an Acrobat pdf.

If necessary please relay this to the proper desk

Sincerely,

Paul Leonard  
Marketing Director
InfoMedia Inc.
415.608.9460 tel.
415.388.7353 fax

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