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Old 07-09-2006, 08:59 AM   #20
feldon34
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Yeah, there are several red flags about the e-mail.

It's from cooloffers@prolific.com. I have pretty much any e-mail including "offer" in the sender field marked as Spam.

The links to redeem the offers have cryptic, long website links:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=qy4r**bab.0....partner%3Dq608

The "confirm" and "unsubscribe" links are to websites I'm not familiar with:
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/c...**721&wl=F
http://ui.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?...n&reason=F

It also doesn't have the conversational style that I've come to expect from these kinds of e-mails. It's VERY difficult to get past the initial negative reaction (assumed or real) when a message is from an unknown entity. You have to almost immediately apologize and assure the viewer that this is not spam and give them a few uncomplicated weblinks.

It's getting hard to run legit ad campaigns to interested parties because of all the spam. I get 200-300 spams a day.
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