tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post8557523597858524926..comments2024-03-27T07:30:02.390+00:00Comments on drsolly: A tangle of spamdrsollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954188290191548178noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-68946842125201416822014-03-18T01:04:30.689+00:002014-03-18T01:04:30.689+00:00I've been receiving spam for AfC for a long wh...I've been receiving spam for AfC for a long while too. In my view many of the events are dubious - getting your sponsors to pay for you to have an adventure holiday is hardly charitable in my book. Given that, I'm quite happy to suggest that they may well be rather on the commercial end of the charity sector. Thanks for doing the research, it's good to know that this was spam and not just something I accidentally signed up to.grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08022181964986094733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-59767223167440902832014-02-20T15:36:39.131+00:002014-02-20T15:36:39.131+00:00Just received some spam from Action for Charity to...Just received some spam from Action for Charity today. It was redirected from an admin email address that isn't public, so I can only guess they also send out mailings to 'suspected' or common email address' attached to domains... as well as buying in lists. Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-78383358307210521312014-01-10T21:48:06.529+00:002014-01-10T21:48:06.529+00:00Action for Charity are a totally commercial busine...Action for Charity are a totally commercial business that makes profit from the funds raised for the charity (they usually take a percentage of the funds raised and keep all the registration fees whether participants cancel or not)<br />They accumulate information from people who enquire via the charities they wish to support and keep mailing them about all their events for different charities.They have erroneously emailed other people when requested not to do soAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-67800673245521020352012-11-10T22:09:36.684+00:002012-11-10T22:09:36.684+00:00I wish I was intelligent - I can't work out ho...I wish I was intelligent - I can't work out how to predict who should be on the blacklist.<br /><br />I do have a despammer, and it does filter out most of the rubbish, but a few get through, and every now and then I choose one at random to follow up by talking to the spammer and getting them to do stuff for me, such as take me of their list. I always refuse to click on their "unsubscribe" link, on the grounds that clicking on a link from someone you don't know is unsafe.<br /><br />"But it's safe to click on my link", they say.<br /><br />"Well, you woulod say that, wouldn't you, not that I'm saying that there's anything untoward about your link, I'm just saying that I have no way of knowing, so could you please open up your database, find my email address, and cancel it manually, please? And could you put me on your suppression list, so we don't have to go throught this again if you buy another database? And could you let me know who you got the database from, so that I can follow up with them? Thank you very much."<br /><br />PEC works great for what I use it for, which is to explaain to spammers that they are actually breaking a law, and could they please stop doing that?<br /><br /><br />drsollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15954188290191548178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-4471762212055364832012-11-10T12:07:36.460+00:002012-11-10T12:07:36.460+00:00An intelligent person would stop all spam by his o...An intelligent person would stop all spam by his own Blacklist, relying on a 3rd party to do this is fraught with failure.<br /><br />PEC fails in many ways, including the fact that you can blindly agree to be re-included on lists, which can reopen your inclusion on all list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com