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August 5, 2018

The Problem With Affiliates (2)

By steve
6 Min read
1 comment
05August

On Friday I mentioned spam coming from a BarkBox affiliate programme. The original email is here. It’s not terribly exciting, it’s rather typical spam of the sort sent by professional spammers. It’s validly DKIM and SPF authenticated, and DMARC-aligned. It includes invisible white-on-white padding text so that it doesn’t look like image-only spam to naive filters (using...

August 3, 2018

The Problem With Affiliates

By steve
2 Min read
2 comments
03August

If I see BarkBox I think Spam. That’s because, despite their marketing team effort, facebook and banner ad budget, the main place I see them advertised is via spam in my mailbox. It’s not even good spam. There’s quite a lot of it. Most of it looks much the same, other than the spammer randomizing colours. This one looks better than the black on cyan version, or any of the other...

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