As Stacey has explained, it was not a fake email and Renderosity does not distribute email addresses. I apologize for not making sure our off-site admin knew the details of this newsletter. We have always had email sponsorship opportunities, but we have rarely had sponsors interested in that option. There have been some similar types of emails in the past, but those sponsors ads were not as obvious or smaller ads.  The sponsor offered a special to our members that we believed our community would be interested in. However, knowing now that members may like their product, but not the approach, we will work with this company to find other options for them to help sponsor our community (maybe like a contest sponsor).

Though our email opt-out option currently covers newsletters, announcements and special offers altogether, we will work to separate those options out if our sponsors continue to have an interest in our email options.