Each day, I like to check my spam folder several times because — who knows? Maybe somebody wrote me with a declaration of love, and I don’t get much of that in my usual inbox.
But no. No love ever in my spam folder.
Instead, all I ever find is dozens of messages from senders like:
Tech Crashes
Lucrative Market News
Worldwide Recession
Recession Starts Now
Market Collapsing
It’s not just the sender names that look the same.
All these emails have the same format, with a linked first sentence… a domain name that’s the same as the sender name (recessionstartsnow dot net)… and the identical “Thank You!” message that appears when you try to unsubscribe.
Unsubscribing, by the way, is impossible.
New disposable domains and new senders keep popping up in my spam folder, day after day, like moles. American Conservative Group. In Time Investing. Wallstreet Burning.
Sometimes, these website have disappeared by the time I click the link in the email, just a few hours after it was sent out.
But some of these emails do still point to live websites.
And on those websites, there’s always a video sales letter, which always features the same glum face. The glum face belongs to Porter Stansberry, the investment researcher and copywriter who started and then sold the billion-dollar company Stansberry Research.
What’s going on?
My suspicion is that this is some affiliate getting creative, and not a new email marketing strategy from Porter & Co, Stansberry’s new venture. But maybe I’m wrong.
If you know, and you would like to tell me, I will be grateful to you.
In any case, let me tease you about something else Stansberry-related:
A while back, a senior copywriter for Stansberry signed up to my newsletter. He replied to one of my emails, and offered to tell me the number one secret behind Stansberry’s billion-dollar success.
I won’t tell you what that copywriter told me — there’s value in not blabbing publicly.
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