www.JailMail.net
We are aware that several pen pal sites regularly solicit our members. We have accumulated many brochures and applications mailed to us
from our members. We have never had a problem with that
and never felt a need to ask you not to solicit our members. We work hard for our members and feel we do the best job we
possibly can to find them pen pals and help them in any way we can. If you feel you are able to do a better job, or help them in ways we
are unable to, we sincerely welcome you to make your web site known to the prisoners listed on this site.
Unfortunately we are not extending this invitation to everyone. We have recently become aware of sites that
are not legitimate. These sites are preying upon prisoners for their money and reeling them in with
their false advertising and untruths. Your lack of business ethics, morals, and standards is unacceptable in any situation and even more
so when dealing with prisoners who already have a hard enough time just surviving. How you
can knowingly make false claims and promises to prisoners just shows your very attitude towards these people
who look to you for help. We are asking you not to solicit our members. If we receive more of your brochures we will
send the members on your site and ours printouts of both your claims on your pamphlets and the truth
from your web site.
While we cannot stop you from soliciting every prisoner, we will absolutely NOT tolerate you intentionally
deceiving and offering false hope to the prisoners listed on this site who are so anxious for friendship.
The sites we are referring to are:
prisonpenpal.net
You claim to have thousands of visitors a day. This is your third year in business and
your counter does not support that claim.
You claim to have a store front for selling items for prisoners. You do not and yet
you claim it works on your brochures.
You promise you do not clutter up your web site as other sites do by putting up resources and
other useless
distracting services. You recently listed resources and your site is quite cluttered
with distracting advertising.
View the applications mailed to us by our members
cybercellmates.com
You have copied the first two pages of your site from this site.
You claim to have "hundreds of male and female inmates on your site". You have a
total of eleven.
You claim to have had phenomenal success. With eleven ads?
You are averaging "thousands and thousands of hits (visitors) to your site every day".
Why would you not proudly display a counter on your site so we can verify the accuracy of that statement?
You claim to have had ads removed due to too much mail, and also people getting married through your site.
You claim it will take "6-8 weeks" for ads to be posted due to the overwhelming response to your service.
You request that a prisoner should have a friend or relative visit your site to verify it is "LEGITIMATE".
The only legitimate thing about your site is that it exists. You have copied two of your three pages from this site. You have not been
honest about any of your claims. This is also your second attempt at a prison pen pal web site. What right do you have to deceive prisoners who have no way of knowing the truth?
View the applications mailed to us by our members
We hope this will serve as a wake-up call and make you change the way you do business. We understand a business
may be new and need time to grow. However, false advertising is illegal and you will not be gaining the trust
and loyalty from your customers if you continue to operate in this manner. Prisoners are lonely and forgotten
and we support every and any organization that offers them a helping hand.
This is an incredibly rewarding business to be involved in and we are grateful and thankful to be allowed
the opportunity to bring hope to prisoners. We love what we do and we care. We are tired of receiving mail from prisoners who are afraid to try and trust again, all
because sites like yours have taken advantage of them. Please think about what you are doing. Prisoners are people too!
May 4th, 2002.
We have been asked by Friends Beyond the Wall (www.FriendsBeyondTheWall.com)
to post this warning.
http://www.captivepenpals.cjb.net/
The company listed above went into the web sites of two reputable prisoner
pen pal companies (Friends Beyond The Wall, Inc. of New York and The
Pampered Prisoner of Canada) and simply downloaded all photos and text for a
total 26 ads that our staff (and theirs) took many hours to create. She has
unethically and illegally violated all known web site copyright infringement
laws.
She also has a scam going on that promises prisoners $10.00 per ad for each
ad they refer to their company (in prison, this is known as "soliciting for
business," and cause for prisoners participating to be locked up).
In addition, after contacting many of the prisoners involved, we have come
to find that she didn't even have permission from all of them to use their
information. She posted their ads simply to add content to her web site,
because she has very few of her own ads listed.
Her unethical actions have shown she has no care or concern for helping
prisoners or doing business in a legal and professional manner. Please do
not patronize her site or allow your loved ones to be taken in by this
unscrupulous woman's practices. If you search for "prison pen pals" in any
of the major search engines, her web site will not even appear. If her web
site does not come up on the major search engines, how will people find her
web site (and more importantly, the ads she has listed)? If web site
visitors are not able to find a web site, the prisoners listed there will
have next to zero chance of receiving responses.
There is also no email contact information posted on her web site.
November 20th, 2002.
We have been asked by a concerned friend of a prisoner
to post this warning.
http://www.vipinmates.com
VIP Inmates, an organization based in British Columbia promises inmates a wide variety
of services. Recently a death row imate hired VIP to create a webpage for him. Money
was sent but no page ever appeared. VIP continues to try to collect even more money
from this inmate. VIP also asked the inmates representatives to do the advertising
for the site. I urge inmates and those close to them to avoid doing business with
VIP Inmates.
May 5th, 2003.
We have been asked by a concerned friend of a prisoner
to post this warning against the same company.
You already have one warning against vip-inmates on your side. I'm a "victim" of the woman
who claims to run this organisation. Please warn everybody about this organisation!
The woman claims she is a lawyer, she is not. She uses a false name, tries to get rid
of the girlfriends/wives of the prisoners. She promise to get people off deathrow, out
of jail, etc. and when you pay...she's gone or doesn't have time etc. VIP Inmates is after
your money and is no good!!
Don't use my name, but please forward it too me when people want to know more. I have to
stay anonymous Because im trying to get this lady out of business!
Take this serious, coz it is serious!!
Thank you
This page created November 19th, 2001
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