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It looks like
DefendMyStreet.com may indeed be exploiting Denver suburbanite's fears about sex offenders to collect their email addresses and spam them. Reader Loy, who fights spam for a living, sends us the result of his probes.
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We called Mile Hi Aereation hoping to reach
Florian McCann. We were going to pose as someone interested in buying the email list he created from DefendMyStreet.com. Unfortunately, he was out to lunch. When we were first shuffled to his mailbox, we couldn't leave a message because it was full. Let us tell you, consumer reporting doesn't get more exciting than this.
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Even before scaring people into giving up their email addresses by spreading tales of sex offender bogeymen, Florian McCann did not have a good rep in Denver. Commentors Pelagius and AcilletaM found several complaints and even news items about McCann's Mile HI Aeration company. Consumers complained about being billed and turned over to collections for aerations that were never performed. Frequently, poor service and damage to lawn sprinklers appear among the complaints. The BBB has over 339 complaints lodged against the company in the past 36 months, most unresolved. When Channel 7 asked Mile Hi back in 2002 about why it refuses to address complaints, they said they "don't kiss up" to its customers.
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Brian Crecente — another
a fellow absorbed fetus in Gawker's bulging, all-consuming belly of blogs — wrote us with a truly scummy scam running in his neighborhood, hyping on parents' crazed paranoia of pedophiles:
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