| Christina |
Mar 18th, 2001 11:03 AM |
huh, it's interesting you remember his name so distinctly, he must have made quite an impression. Christopher Woolson is a travel agent who spams travel forum boards (like Fodors and Frommers) and pretends to be a customer reviewing his own products and then directs people to that agency's web site to sign up for the trips he is reviewing for which (surprise, surprise!) he is the agent gaining commissions. I won't name the agency as to not give him any publicity, but if that post were deleted, it should have been, as it was advertising. I just checked his agency's web site and (again surprise!) he is the agent running a trip to Italy and those photos are on his site. I guessed he's learned new dirty tricks, now he's promoting photos, he used to pretend to be a customer; this photo trick is done by another jerk with a website named Mike of Footloosetravel. Mike also spams Frommers under various guises (photos, usually it's the typical advertising trick you see on here where these guys with companies respond to all kinds of questions/posts, even when they have nothing of relevance to say or add, so they can direct you to their website or ask you to email them for more info) so perhaps that's where Christopher picked up some new tricks as he's not very bright and probably wouldn't have thought of it on his own--the first time he tried the phoney customer trick he was dumb enough to leave his real email address in the box which was an AOL address where you could read his profile which told you he was a travel agent for the firm he was reviewing. These guys are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
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