A couple of days ago an ex-employee of Opt-In Inc., was kind enough to do a Reddit AMA answering questions about their experience working with Steve Hardigree in the “legitimate” email marketing industry, back in the early 2000s. The whole thing is worth a read, but I thought I’d share some of his more interesting answers here. Everyone knows everyone The spam business was super...
Brian Krebs has more on Rove Digital and the criminal connection to other scammers and spammers.
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...
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...
I received an email yesterday with the subject “Please confirm your lunch reservation”. It didn’t look like a typical spam subject line, but wasn’t from anywhere I recognized. I take a look. I’ve reserved a seat for you (and up to 2 guests from Word) at your choice of upcoming, complimentary lunch seminars that I will be hosting around the Bay Area … Sure...
Everyone I talk to when dealing with issues inevitably has to tell me they are legitimate email marketers. They’re not spammers, they’re just business people. I often find it difficult to fathom why they need to tell me this. It’s not like email marketers are criminals or anything. Two recent stories reminded me how evil some folks are. While I’ve not had any direct...
The too many.
The stupid.
The spammers.
The blog spammers are still actively attempting to get their claws into my blog. Today the comments included:
marketing is my specialty becuse i like to promote new products”‘:
lead generation is the key to becoming a very successful internet marketer,~~
The only sensible thing to do is refer the commenter to today’s XKCD:
I’m off to MAAWG next week and seem to have had barely enough time to breathe lately, much less blog. I have a half written post, but it’s taking a little more research to put together. That can wait until I get the chance to do the research. Instead I thought I’d talk about the North Coast Journal article “The Rise and Fall of a Spam Crusader.” It’s quite an...
I’m hearing a lot of claims about best practices recently and I’m wondering what people really mean by the term. All too often people tell me that they comply with “all best practices” followed by a list of things they do that are clearly not best practices. Some of those folks are clients or sales prospects but some of them are actually industry colleagues that have...
Spammers have already discovered they can send spam through Apple’s new Ping service. Yes, some of the fastest adopters of new technology are spammers.
Isn’t technology wonderful?
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