Comments on: Online advertiser to settle spam charges for record $2.9 million

Agreement settles FTC charges that ValueClick and a subsidiary made deceptive offers of "free" iPhones, plasma TVs, and the like.

[Leria]

I admit it.... I fell for this

And had to change my e-mail address because of the absolute DELUGE of spam that was put into my inbox.

I finally got P.O.ed enough that I informed the Maryland State Attorney General's Office of what was going on.

[gsekse]

I trust nothing, but I like to look and laugh

I clicked on this once to see what it asked for and "what the catch was". The moment it started asking for all that info... yeah right... back button -click-

[fokwp]

Really any fine at all?

What the article does not mention is whether or not $2.9 M means anything at all to ValueClick. Is this a real fine or just a token so we can pretend there is some protection for consumers?

[mkda]

Some are scams and some DO work

Some sites seem legit the way it is explained here when I searched on Google. http://freeipodtouch.blogspot.com/

I guess some are scams and some DO work