I also found this page by doing a search on the Bonus Boney company after getting spam from them.  My hotmail acct received an offer from Gevalia coffee with this Bonus Boney company listed at the bottom as the distributor.  I supposedly signed up for junk mail from this company somewhere, but I think that’s hooey.  My opinion of Gevalia has gone down dramatically after reading the comments posted on this webpage. 

I don’t think I’ll bother with the unsubscribe feature, which sounds like it will be as bogus as their story on how I “signed up” for their e-crap, and as bogus as the offers they are associated with.

I know this reply is a little late, but..eh..here goes.

My stance on the matter of any spam is: Do not, under any circumstances, reply to or sponsor it.

No matter if the deal is legit, or funny, or looks neat I won’t touch it. The fact of the matter is that spam exists because it is a FUNCTIONING marketing tool. If we don’t use it, it will not be profitable anymore. If these companies won’t make money on it they won’t do it.

We could just kill all marketers, but we don’t have time for rational solutions.

Hey everybody.  Sign up for snail mail on all of the web sites that offer it.  When you get their junk snail mail, use their postage paid envelope and insert all of their ads in the envelope to mail back to them with nothing filled out.  Let them pay for the return postage.  Let’s pump up their postage bill.  If everybody did it, they would quit.  Even include some extra stuff like sunday paper ads to increase their return postage costs.

That’s a funny thought.  Years ago a friend of mine did just that and gave me the idea.  I used to get these junk mailings (I think from Texas) that looked like they contained a check.  It was a fake check that could be used to purchase their crap at “discount” prices.  That majorly pissed me off, as I live in the state of anticipating a check So I would always restuff their return postage paid envelope and mail it back.

Here’s a link to the DMA(Direct Marketing ASSociation) which should probably give you a list to all people/corps you should avoid.  It shouldn’t be a suprise that MSFT, IBM, and Google have people on the list and why some of that SPAM has an easier time of getting through to you on those “free” e-mail accounts.  Don’t get me wrong, I get them too. :|

http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/mdlist_council?council=12

One other thing, after looking at the DMA site I sure get that conspiracy theory going in my head.  It seems like it consists of basically every major retail company out there.  Just doing some browsing and it looks pretty clear.  If only our politians would spend more time going after stuff like this.  Of course I am probably in the minority being that the people I voted for didn’t get in office to work on it. (Makes me feel a little less guilty anyway.)

Someone with a US federal court should be aware of what’s going on, as the owner of Netidiot.com told me that he’s seen one of their servers show up in his logs.

I have been reporting these scumbags to http://www.spamcop.com...I have received an onslaught of crap email from them and it is really getting on my nerves. If enough people use spamcop to report these people, perhaps something will be done about it.

I have unsubscribed to Bonus Bonez over 40 times to no avail. I have written them over and over asking them to stop spamming me. I am getting email sometimes every hour STILL. I have tried and tried and am in HELL.

I have unsubscribed a million times myself. I even found the phone number on one of the links above and called them. Of course the number led me right to voicemail.

I think their “unsubscribe” box is just a method of telling whether or not your email is still active. They do not remove you at all.

I’m in the same wretched boat. Since I unsubscribed, I have been receiving four times as many emails. Do not unsubscribe! That just lets them know that your email is active.

Instead I have started forwarding the messages to the FTC. There are laws against spam and the FTC is who enforces those laws--we hope.

You can forward spam to the FTC using this address:

If you want to read more about the FTC, go to http://www.ftc.gov/spam. Here’s what the spam law actually entails: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm

Good Luck! I appreciate all the suggestions for how to bail out.

they need to be stopped!
i almost hate opening my hotmail anymore...all i get are their stoopid spam!

please tell me how to get rid of it!!!

Well, my personal feeling is that BBonerz gets their e-mail addresses from Friendster.com I had no spam problems until my friend convinced me to sign-up and sure enough I get 5 messages a day from BBonerz now.

I actually started sending them spam, but they stopped their SMTP server from receiving messages, so I can’t do it anymore.

My only hope is that hotmail starts allowing IP filtering for individual addresses.  When I get 5 messages a day from 5 “different” companies, but from the same IP address, it is not hard to see what is going on.  I think that is the only way to stop the spam.

I wanted to give you a bit of an update on the Bonus Bonez email and the corporate info that I’ve been able to find on them.

1) Bonus Bones is indeed owned/operated by Jumpstart Technologies, LLC
2) You can reach them at 415-901-9891, ask for customer service, threaten them with the Nevada Anti Spam law (VERY TOUGH) and ask to be removed--you will never hear from them again.

Additionally, one of the founders of the company Greg Tseng may be reached via email at , Johann Smith may be reached at

I set up a separate email account to ask for info about the company, then within a couple of days...I started receiving spam from them. When I told the story to customer service--I was removed immediately. 

I wish you luck in your quest to rid yourself of spam.

yep, i hate these people. and here they are: http://www.jtllc.com/

found the info here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3980535~root=spam~mode=flat

the same guys did this: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/07/crushmaster/index2.html

the worst part, all this work, from all these people - and there is still no way out. it makes me terrified to use the web for anything for fear my email addresses [cuz i get this stuff at all three] will be plagued with more spam.

UPDATE: I called and left a threatening message on their voice mail. Today I have recieved no email. I do not know whether this was from fwd’ing all the junk mail i got tot he government and spamcop, or because of the message, but for some reason I did not get any messages today.

they have already changed that voicemail to an individual’s name, and the owners emails bounce back [i tried fwding all my spam to them]. i left a message, but we’ll see.

I also wanted to chime in with some input about Bonus Bonez.

A friend of mine called yesterday, based upon finding a number listed in a blog about VPN issue. I would try different variations on the last four numbers, I just did it and it worked for 415-901-9892. Try 9893,9894, etc.

The other thing to do is to write to customer service at Bonus Bonez, they responded within 24 hours to my friend--they claimed that his email was duplicated in their system, and it created problems. THey didn’t want to send the mail to anyone that didn’t want it, etc. The long of the short of it is this:

She said two things that were important;

1) If he wanted to have the people that were also running into the problem contact her directly they could do that ()
2) She would stop the emails immediately.

As of 3:00 pm pacific today, he hadn’t received anything for 24 hours.

Happened to run a Google News search today on “Brian Benenhaley” and came across a long article in ContraCostaTimes, which includes the following:

Brian Benenhaley, chief operating officer at SubscriberBase, of Columbia, S.C., which owns Consumer Research, said when the company receives a complaint, it is typically because a person has not familiarized themselves with the requirements before signing up.

“It’s not for everybody,” he said, adding that consumers do have to spend money to participate. “The question the user has to answer is: Do they think the service they’re paying for is worth it?”

Citing competitive reasons, Benenhaley declined to discuss how many members SubscriberBase had and what rewards it had given out. Although he said he would ask satisfied participants to discuss the program, no contacts were provided.

3 Days after my interaction with Bonus Bonez customer service and NOT ONE email has been sent.

If you want to end the spam, write them as the person above describes (the support@bonusbonez address). This worked. I can’t believe it, three days and nothing from them.

I wrote in this letter

I have unsubscribed to your system over 50 times. Yes 50. I have only
INCREASED my spam from your company. I NEVER signed up for anything and am
considering a long letter to the FTC concerning this. I was told this
email was one way to stop this harassment so I am trying this. I wonder if
your company knows how many bulletin boards are dedicated to trying to
help others with your companies assaults. Listing names addresses phone
numbers to your company and it’s owners as well as links to anti spam laws
and reporting agencies all in an effort to stop this problem from
continuing. It is truly sad.

Bleu

...and got this back. We will see.

Hello,

Thanks for writing Bonus Bonez. We’re sorry you’ve had trouble
unsubscribing from our mailing list! We assure you we will look into why
this wasn’t working for you - we definitely do not want anyone receiving
unwanted emails from us!

I have removed your email address *******@hotmail.com, from our mailing
list. It can take up to 72 hours for this process to fully be completed,
so don’t worry if you receive another email in that time. If you receive
any emails from us after that 72 hours, please forward one to us here at
and we will investigate why this is happening.

Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Sincerely,
Jennifer
Customer Service

yep, call the number [even if it doesn’t say the company’s name on the message] and send an email to and you should be good to go. it’s amazing to open that inbox and see none of it!!

I got more spam today again. I forwarded it to them as they asked. We will see what happens. The spam was from Tickle Scientific for BB.

I am sooooooooooooooooooooo sick of this.

Bleu

what happened?

I think I have finally stopped receiving spam but I am now experiencing problems with my email account that was getting the spam. It is making me “match the word” to prove I am NOT a spammer every time I want to send an email. Microsoft is trying to figure it out but I am just finished with all of this.

I will probably have to delete the entire account.

Bleu