This morning I received the first two spams to the address of mine that was compromised during the Epsilon compromise back in April. Actually, I received two of them. One was the “standard” Adobe phish email. The other was similar but referenced Limewire instead of Adobe. Have you heard the big news? Limewire has shut down for good. Want to know what other people are using as their...
There has been a plethora of big brand companies doing stupid stuff with marketing recently. I can only figure it’s end of quarter and everyone is looking to pump up their numbers as fast as possible. I talked about Millenium hotels sending me with an utterly irrelevant ad earlier this week. @Yahoomail direct message spammed all their twitter followers with an ad for something related to...
The problem with buying lists is that you never know which consumers are already on your list and you risk spamming current subscribers.
A growing OSX security problem illustrates why user education is not the solution to virus, spam or malware problems.
HT: @briankrebs
In all the recent discussions of email address thievery I’ve not seen anyone mention stealing addresses by abusing the legal system. And, yet, there’s at least one ambulance chasing lawyer that’s using email addresses that were never given to him by the recipients. Even worse, when asked about it he said that the courts told him he could use the email address and that we...
I got a spam today advertising spamming services that ended with a tagline that can be paraphrased: We managed to spam you, let us spam others on your behalf! OK, so what they actually said was: We have proven that we can get our message through to you….Let us help get your message in front of your ideal audience. The thing is, I’m not an ideal audience for his message. Really. Sending me...
Yes, the SEC. Really. Apparently the email marketing firm mUrgent, which provides services to the restaurant and hospitality industry also had a side business. According to the complaint filed by the SEC last month, they had an entire boiler room set up to sell shares for their non-existent IPO. I’d never heard of this firm before, so I did a little digging. First step, check out their...
I’m hearing more rumors of ESPs seeing customer accounts being compromised, similar to what happened with The Children’s Place. Experian CheetahMail identified an isolated incident in which someone used a valid client user ID and password to gain access to the client’s email account and transmit an unauthorized and unlawful email. To recipients, the email appeared as a solicitation...
But sometimes it makes me laugh. Yesterday I got a 419 that said, “[…]have been diagonalized with HIV/AIDS which has defiled all forms of medical treatment[…]” Diagonalized? Defiled all forms of treatment?
At least it was entertaining, right?
Earlier this week I received an email to a work address I retired 4 or 5 years ago. The from and subject lines alone were enough to make me laugh and decide I had to blog about this particular spammer. From: TargetRight Marketing <> Subject: Webinar: Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Renting B2B Email Lists My initial thought was that they clearly couldn’t effectively rent a B2B...
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