It seems likely that you are paying enough attention to detail so yeah.
But to be honest, your description read a lot like e-mail I read every
day from people who don't track their interactions and then send us
bogus reports of SPAM for things which they have signed up.
I literally had someone SCREAMING at me the other day because they
didn't want to receive "spam" from a company which they have an account
with, and who they pay on a monthly basis for services. Which they
honestly admitted, but wanted us to stop the e-mail anyway. *sigh*
NOTE for those who might not understand: This person apparently has an
honest dispute with the company about the type and amount of e-mail he
receives from them. But when he is a paying customer of that company,
we can't act on his complaints that the mail is unsolicited. It's not.
We did suggest that he vote with his feet, at which point we could act
on his complaint but he was unwilling to hear that suggestion.
Gary W. Smith wrote:
I used my work cell, which has no relationship to any of this. We
aren't talking about legitimate email from these companies, we are
talking about unsolicited emails.
There is a level of spam that you expect but in this case I can
effectively say that every item in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] box is
spam. That's all I was trying to say. You seem to be defending the
fact that there might be real email destined for this account.
BTW, these accounts are setup methodically for the purposes of trapping
spam.
And yes, I have used all types of phone numbers for these things (as
mentioned off list). I've been around this list for some years now so
this really isn't a noob scenario.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM
To: Gary W. Smith
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Psst!
Gary W. Smith wrote:
Well, LT (lending tree) seemed to be the one selling people the
information. When I received calls from these people from the
mortgages
they mostly bought their hot leads from LT.
Unless you used a different contact phone number than the one listed
on
your mortgage public records, you can't be sure that LT is behind
this.
> When I did a couple lookups
I found that in some cases the URL's for the mortgage spams (which
are
what I received a lot of) had the same technical contact email as
LT.
This isn't solid proof they are behind that batch of bulk spams that
I
still receive to this day but it doesn't help disprove.
Here's the thing. I have multiple mortgages, and I get tons of
mortgage
spam. Legitimate (5-10 pieces of postal mail PER DAY) and
illegitimate.
I've never dealt with Lending Tree, and I never see Lending Tree spam.
*NEVER* is pretty relevant here, because I deal with spam EVERY DAY.
It's my day job too :-)
That said, a friend of mine did sign up for Lending Tree and used
their
service, and now gets spam to that address constantly. But when you
send mail to a mailing list of unknown recipients ...
--
Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
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Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance
