I followed a shared link on my Facebook feed to this site. It asked for my mailing address and phone number to sign up... didn't think too much of that at first because I thought there would be samples mailed to me. Pretty quickly, I realized that you just are referred to site after site after site and most of what I saw seemed to be magazine subscriptions, services, contests...
Starting almost immediately, the spam emails began pouring in. Within a day or two, I was receiving telemarketer calls like crazy. That was about two weeks ago.
The emails have slowed - I unsubscribed to those I could - but the telemarketer calls have become absurd. 19 yesterday. Today, I have had 6 so far and it's only noontime. They are for all kinds of things - saying I've won a cruise, pushing continuing education, CPA services, telling me I can get a federal grant, wanting me to sign up for credit card processing services... just a myriad of 'stuff'.
I feel so foolish for having signed up at this site and am kicking myself everytime my phone rings.