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Posted By: Dennis Bevers <bassco2@bellsouth.net> In Response To: Thanks! Lesson: NEVER reply to spam! (Sandi Bowman)
Saturday, 1 July 2006, at 9:01 a.m.
> Thanks for the heads up, Dennis.
> A bit surprised that you, of all people, would reply to something you
> state came in as spam? Hmmm...guess we all have to learn or re-learn
> things from time to time. Sure glad you didn't get caught in their web of
> nasty surprises.
> Sandi Bowman
But, it didn't appear to be spam. I have ads in a number of directories, not all of which I remember the names.
It had my specific ad copy, not some generic stuff they pulled from my website or a post here, but an actual ad that I had posted a year or two earlier. Do you remember every forum, message board, and other site that you visited, and may have left a post, ad, or directory listing?
It's very similar to the eBay spoofing scam. They send the spoofs out to 100K people, and they'll hit a number of registered eBay users. The logo is correct. The terminology is accurate. Even all the links are directed to the primary eBay site - except the one they ask you to use to correct the problem.
This spam scam was targeted very much to me and my business. It was far more deceptive than the telemarketers who call wanting to verify my listing for their directory. I'm always prepared for those, as I never have more than one paid yellow pages ad, and it is always with a local directory.
In this case, it's a matter of habit that I always read the Terms of Service Agreement, even with companies I know and have used previously.
When you receive 100 to 200 emails per day, many from potential suppliers you have never contacted before - You have to open many before you assume it is spam. The one I delete as spam, could be an unknown supplier of the purple widgets I've been searching for to satisfy a client.
The promotional advertising iondustry includes over 3800 suppliers. Even if the email used the commonly known name, I wouldn't recognize half of them after 22 years in this business.
My Bell South webmail has Mailguard, which is a fairly aggressive filtering system. The scam email, made it passed the filter. Mailguard is an intelligent program, that adjusts the filtering according to my marking the incoming mail for spam.
But, with 30 to 70 pieces of spam per day, not all of them get caught. You can by eBooks that tell you how to send out mass mailings and get by the ISP and individual spam filters. A percentage will get through.
Which is why I was alert enough to avoid their trap this time.
Dennis Bevers
My home-based business that works for me and thousands of others
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