Who hasn’t been hoodwinked by an on-line marketing ploy? We trusting souls see an ad on the web offering a deal, product or service we can use, and we bite, having been assured in bold red type that our privacy would be fully respected. It seems safe enough, so we dutifully type in our email address and phone number and… how gullible, we should have known better! For the next three weeks we’re besieged by emails and sales reps calling incessantly. So think twice, then twice again before responding to any presumably innocuous offers on cyberspace. Venders will say virtually anything to snag your electronic address and once they get it, be prepared to add a gig to your Spam repository because it will fill up rapidly. For advertisers to deliberately mislead and do what they said they would not do… that is callused cynicism.