I was recently invited to a group called "Tesbowner"- an American Small business owners network- it seems to be a group of ecommerce owners who share advice through email threads.
They've talked a lot about something called HSPPS or Highly Specialized PinPointing Services- Mostly about one called "Vawngo"
Many of the folks claim that they've seen huge amounts of traffice from this type of marketing "much more than Yahoo or google's PPC" Some of the numbers they've given seem almost too good to be true.
They've said that Vawngo isn't accepting any new accounts anyway so, it's not like I can sign up, but this may just be a tatic to create demand.
I wanted to know if anyone else has ever heard of HSPPS or Vawngo or Tesbowner for that matter. The threads indicate that it's been around for a few years or so.

HSPPS...yes
Vawngo..yes
Tesbowner...no

Hi everyone. I've literally just joined this forum because of this thread.

I would almost say it is definitely a scam. I too was approached by a potential customer who also happened to know if I wanted to join Tesbowner. I joined.. got a few personal emails wherein people stated they ran certain sites. I asked for the URLs, etc. Thought nothing of it.

Everytime I sent an email to the listserver, I never saw it come up.. and no one would reply to it or mention receiving it or anything.

Finally, the Vawngo talk started. I asked about it.. no response. Obviously curious, I googled it day after day until I found this thread suddenly today. I did a bit of research. There are three people who contacted me personally though Tesbowner - and gave me "their" websites.

On further research, none of these websites state the respective people as the owners.. in fact, some of the websites, have a list of names that do not correspond at all with what I have been told. Today I contacted a website that was "owned" by one of the people who contacted me. They had never heard of the person that was purporting to be their owner. So, yes, they're all lying..

One last thing.. anyone who jumps onto these forums and defends them.. look at when they joined. TODAY. My guess is they're in on the scam.

oh yeah.. vawngo.com was only registered very recently

^ Although I haven't made my mind up on this topic I find it intriguing how you can be so quick to point fingers. It sounds like you've only known them for a few weeks and you are already quick to judge and make conclusions.Why couldn't anyone else say that you yourself could be impersonating other organizations who might want to capture their membership? Perhaps you could be an advertising agency who doesn't want similiar competition? Or maybe a good old fashion troll? After all you too joined today as well and none of us can truly know your intentions.

Originally Posted by nstarleather

I was recently invited to a group called

Simple answer, Don't EVER read spam emails.