I just got an email message from VMware which began as follows: Thank you for your past interest in VMware. As part of our routine scheduled maintenance, we will be removing email addresses and associated subscription information from our marketing database for contacts who have not updated their profile and/or subscription preferences within the last… Read More: VMware does email marketing right »
In a recent email message to me entitled “Fighting the Good Fight,” friend, author and politician Michael Burstein referred me to Kate Hutchinson’s blog entry about spamming by Sam Yoon. Michael is an avid reader of my blog and therefore knows that I’ve been in more than a few scraps of my own like Kate’s. … Read More: Spam Yoon »
As long-time readers of my blog know, I have been trying for a long time to help the environment and waste less of my own time by getting people to stop sending me junk mail. My primary method for doing that is to use email to contact the person or organization sending the junk mail… Read More: Naomi Zygiel-Almozlino, Boston Realtor (Coldwell Banker) and inveterate spammer for… »
Operation Smile started spamming me in 2004 after I donated to them on-line and gave them my email address so they could send me a receipt. They have sent me spam on November 5, 2004; December 22, 2004; January 11, 2005; December 7, 2005; December 20, 2005; March 8, 2006; May 11, 2006; May 28,… Read More: Operation Smile: Unrepentant, Egregious Spammers »
A phishing message in my spam folder caught my eye today, so I decided to take a closer look at it. It claimed to be from CapitalOne. It had a legitimate sender address, a legitimate Subject line (“Please Call Us Regarding Recent Restrictions”), and convincing-looking content that was mostly lifted straight from a real CapitalOne… Read More: Fascinating phishing attack — the links are fine, but watch… »
Some time ago, author Galen Gruman, an Executive Editor at InfoWorld, started a petition demanding that Microsoft continue to sell Windows XP past the time when they had originally intended to stop, on the grounds that many individuals and businesses saw no need to switch to Windows Vista and shouldn’t be forced to do so.… Read More: Galen Gruman collects email addresses for InfoWorld and IDG to… »
I recently attempted to buy a couple pairs of jeans from Sears through their Web site, an attempt which failed spectacularly, as did my attempts to get Sears to fix it. Also, it turns out that not only does Sears spam people who order through their Web site, but they keep doing it after they’ve… Read More: Just Say No to shopping at Sears »
The Perkins School for the Blind used to be on the list of charitable organizations which my wife and I support. At some point I donated to them on-line through their Web site, providing my email address at that time so that they could send a receipt via email. They subsequently used that address to… Read More: Perkins School for the Blind: inveterate spammers »
At around 3:21pm US/Eastern on November 4, 2007, a zombie botnet began a dictionary spam attack against one of the domains I host. zombie botnet — a group of PCs that have been broken into by a hacker and turned into “zombies,” i.e., PCs over which the hacker now has control, so that he can… Read More: zombie botnet spam attack from over 3,000 IP addresses in… »
I just sent this complaint to Senator Edward Kennedy’s office through the form on his Web site: