[LINK] Spam from Fairfax

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:09 AM 25/07/2013, linda rouse wrote:
>Now its Fairfax's turn to serve up some spam - with the Subject line of:
>"Introducing our new digital subscriptions" !
>
>At least there is an unsubscribe link- how they got my email address 
>I don't know! Assume a few of you also received this. I certainly 
>won't be signing up.

Thanks for the heads up, Linda. Will keep an eye out. They may just 
be address scraping from other sources or buying lists. Not a good 
strategy, but if their take-up rate is low, they may be desparate.

Speaking of spam, a friend sent me one that made it through a couple 
layers of filters to his gmail account. It was an odd one, typical 
bad spelling and punctuation, but the really nasty part of it was 
that it added something to his gmail calendar function. And the only 
way to remove it was to decline the invitation, which is like 
shooting a flare to say this is a legitimate address. He had no 
choice but to do something, so I believe he said he deleted it and 
then went to change some setting on his account.

Anyway, keep an eye out for this effect.

Oh, and gmail has now added a Promotions so they can send you 
unsolicited adverts in emails. There was an article on Huffington 
Post yesterday about how to get rid of that tab, but instead you get 
inserted lines of adverts. They are in control, so they will get at 
you one way or the other.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/gmail-ads-email-google_n_3641511.html>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/gmail-ads-email-google_n_3641511.html 


Jan




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