head caretaker of marine aquarium

handimannbob · 07-07-2006, 02:55 PM

what's this mail i just got...i didn't open it.....from the head caretaker

Lostboy · 07-07-2006, 03:35 PM

I got this too. What I'm wondering is what about people that own everything except for the Flags screensaver.

feldon34 · 07-07-2006, 07:53 PM

Can you please send the entire message including extended headers to my e-mail at feldon@feldoncentral.com?

Schnaaps · 07-07-2006, 08:23 PM

This is legit. Our marketing team has come up with a special offer to coincide the Prolific releasing a new shopping cart.

Schnaaps · 07-07-2006, 08:32 PM

This is only available to existing customers. Also, the DVD is available for Sale on prolific.com as well.

clifdene · 07-08-2006, 02:41 AM

Can someone explain what this is about?

feldon34 · 07-08-2006, 09:55 AM

If relatively experienced users are finding this message to be vague and confusing, imagine the average customer. Can someone forward a copy of it to me at feldon@feldoncentral.com ?

Eddy'sEddy · 07-08-2006, 11:08 AM

Sent you an e-mail with the forwarded info today at 12:54 pm. Do you still want the extended headers?

Marian Nichols · 07-08-2006, 11:24 AM

I recieved it, understood it, but I already own them all,

clifdene · 07-08-2006, 11:38 AM

I give up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marian Nichols · 07-08-2006, 12:26 PM

You are being offered several screen savers in a bundle at a great saving over buying them individually, Understand now?

clifdene · 07-08-2006, 12:55 PM

Marion. I have not been offered anything! l

Eddy'sEddy · 07-08-2006, 01:06 PM

BUY-ONE-GET-ONE-N-MORE Offer

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Greetings!
We've created this email offer as a way of thanking you for being our customer. When you BUY ONE of our great aquarium software products, you GET ONE FREE, and you get MORE, too! Buy any one of these products at our regular price of $19.94 and get another one for FREE!

Psst, give one as a gift or keep them both for yourself - we won't tell anyone.

SereneScreen Marine Aquarium
This is the one you've seen everywhere - it comes with 28 unique species, which you won't find swimming together in any other aquarium, real or virtual. Hours of entertainment with no fuss or water changing.

Choose now

Goldfish Aquarium
It's the Zen of it all. With three different tanks, and eleven different types of goldfish, this one will take your stresses away without you having to go away. You just gotta experience this one.

Choose now

Sharks: Terror of the Deep
As beautiful as they are terrifying, this product lets you get up close to them - without the risks and travel expenses. With 11 species and 8 different scenes, lookout for the surprises!

Choose Now

Here's the N-MORE part of our offer...
When you take advantage of this offer, we'll send you our amazing Flags of the World, absolutely FREE. Our 3D technology not only lets you wave the flag of any country on your monitor - it allows you to turn your photos into waving flags, too.

Choose Now

There's our offer: Three great products for the price of just one. $19.94 That's it. You can take advantage of this offer until July 15, 2006.

Once your credit card payment has been processed, you will recieve an email with three keycodes, one for each of the products you selected, and one for Flags of the World. These keycodes unlock the product from their demo mode to full user mode. The name appearing on your credit card statement is Prolific Publishing.

We appreciate getting your feedback, so let us hear from you. Enjoy the summer, stay safe, and know that you are very much appreciated by all of us.

Warm regards,

Head Caretaker of Aquariums
Prolific Publishing, Inc.

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email: cooloffers@prolific.com
web: http://www.Prolific.com

Here is the worded copy of my e-mal

clifdene · 07-08-2006, 01:18 PM

Thank you. I have all of these. Perhaps that is why I did not receive an offer.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

clifdene · 07-08-2006, 01:20 PM

On second thoughts - Is this a closing down sale?

Eddy'sEddy · 07-08-2006, 02:08 PM

I think the big upset over this e-mail is not the offer, but how the e-mail came to our inboxes. The sender is listed as "Head Caretaker of Aquariums". I have never read about this term before at this forum. Also, the e-mail contains pictures. For me, I was concerned about opening this e-mail because of all the bad things that could come with bad e-mails. That is why I checked first with this forum about the e-mail before opening it.

Lostboy · 07-08-2006, 02:08 PM

I'd been on the boarder of getting Flags... too bad I already own the rest of them.

handimannbob · 07-08-2006, 10:03 PM

eddy, that's why i trashed it, right away, it sounded like UH OH...wonder who thought up that sender's name

Socrates · 07-08-2006, 10:06 PM

Originally posted by Eddy'sEddy:

I think the big upset over this e-mail is not the offer, but how the e-mail came to our inboxes. The sender is listed as "Head Caretaker of Aquariums". I have never read about this term before at this forum. Also, the e-mail contains pictures. For me, I was concerned about opening this e-mail because of all the bad things that could come with bad e-mails. That is why I checked first with this forum about the e-mail before opening it.

I actually had already reported it as SPAM to Trend before I realized what it was.

feldon34 · 07-09-2006, 08:59 AM

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.

07-07-2006, 02:55 PM	#1
handimannbob what's up doc ? Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: millbrae,ca Posts: 410	head caretaker of marine aquarium what's this mail i just got...i didn't open it.....from the head caretaker bob

07-07-2006, 07:53 PM	#3
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	Can you please send the entire message including extended headers to my e-mail at feldon@feldoncentral.com? "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

07-07-2006, 08:23 PM	#4
Schnaaps prolificus penguinus Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Prolific Posts: 204	This is legit. Our marketing team has come up with a special offer to coincide the Prolific releasing a new shopping cart. "Jim, no not THAT Jim but another of the same name" JamesRathbun.com

07-07-2006, 08:32 PM	#5
Schnaaps prolificus penguinus Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Prolific Posts: 204	This is only available to existing customers. Also, the DVD is available for Sale on prolific.com as well. "Jim, no not THAT Jim but another of the same name" JamesRathbun.com

07-08-2006, 09:55 AM	#7
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	If relatively experienced users are finding this message to be vague and confusing, imagine the average customer. Can someone forward a copy of it to me at feldon@feldoncentral.com ? "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

07-07-2006, 03:35 PM	#2
Lostboy SquirrelFish Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 206	I got this too. What I'm wondering is what about people that own everything except for the Flags screensaver.

07-08-2006, 02:41 AM	#6
clifdene Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: UK Posts: 168	Can someone explain what this is about?

07-08-2006, 11:08 AM	#8
Eddy'sEddy Ms. Pat Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 15	Sent you an e-mail with the forwarded info today at 12:54 pm. Do you still want the extended headers?

07-08-2006, 11:24 AM	#9
Marian Nichols ~Author~ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Rocky Mount, NC Posts: 7,429	I recieved it, understood it, but I already own them all, Write paranormal mysteries. Six books so far.

07-08-2006, 11:38 AM	#10
clifdene Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: UK Posts: 168	I give up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

07-08-2006, 12:26 PM	#11
Marian Nichols ~Author~ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Rocky Mount, NC Posts: 7,429	You are being offered several screen savers in a bundle at a great saving over buying them individually, Understand now? Write paranormal mysteries. Six books so far.

07-08-2006, 12:55 PM	#12
clifdene Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: UK Posts: 168	Marion. I have not been offered anything! l

07-08-2006, 01:06 PM	#13
Eddy'sEddy Ms. Pat Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 15	BUY-ONE-GET-ONE-N-MORE Offer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings! We've created this email offer as a way of thanking you for being our customer. When you BUY ONE of our great aquarium software products, you GET ONE FREE, and you get MORE, too! Buy any one of these products at our regular price of $19.94 and get another one for FREE! Psst, give one as a gift or keep them both for yourself - we won't tell anyone. SereneScreen Marine Aquarium This is the one you've seen everywhere - it comes with 28 unique species, which you won't find swimming together in any other aquarium, real or virtual. Hours of entertainment with no fuss or water changing. Choose now Goldfish Aquarium It's the Zen of it all. With three different tanks, and eleven different types of goldfish, this one will take your stresses away without you having to go away. You just gotta experience this one. Choose now Sharks: Terror of the Deep As beautiful as they are terrifying, this product lets you get up close to them - without the risks and travel expenses. With 11 species and 8 different scenes, lookout for the surprises! Choose Now Here's the N-MORE part of our offer... When you take advantage of this offer, we'll send you our amazing Flags of the World, absolutely FREE. Our 3D technology not only lets you wave the flag of any country on your monitor - it allows you to turn your photos into waving flags, too. Choose Now There's our offer: Three great products for the price of just one. $19.94 That's it. You can take advantage of this offer until July 15, 2006. Once your credit card payment has been processed, you will recieve an email with three keycodes, one for each of the products you selected, and one for Flags of the World. These keycodes unlock the product from their demo mode to full user mode. The name appearing on your credit card statement is Prolific Publishing. We appreciate getting your feedback, so let us hear from you. Enjoy the summer, stay safe, and know that you are very much appreciated by all of us. Warm regards, Head Caretaker of Aquariums Prolific Publishing, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: cooloffers@prolific.com web: http://www.Prolific.com Here is the worded copy of my e-mal

07-08-2006, 01:18 PM	#14
clifdene Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: UK Posts: 168	Thank you. I have all of these. Perhaps that is why I did not receive an offer. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

07-08-2006, 01:20 PM	#15
clifdene Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: UK Posts: 168	On second thoughts - Is this a closing down sale?

07-08-2006, 02:08 PM	#16
Eddy'sEddy Ms. Pat Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 15	I think the big upset over this e-mail is not the offer, but how the e-mail came to our inboxes. The sender is listed as "Head Caretaker of Aquariums". I have never read about this term before at this forum. Also, the e-mail contains pictures. For me, I was concerned about opening this e-mail because of all the bad things that could come with bad e-mails. That is why I checked first with this forum about the e-mail before opening it.

07-08-2006, 10:03 PM	#18
handimannbob what's up doc ? Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: millbrae,ca Posts: 410	eddy, that's why i trashed it, right away, it sounded like UH OH...wonder who thought up that sender's name bob

07-08-2006, 10:06 PM	#19
Socrates Sage Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: West Hills, CA Posts: 1,529	Originally posted by Eddy'sEddy: I think the big upset over this e-mail is not the offer, but how the e-mail came to our inboxes. The sender is listed as "Head Caretaker of Aquariums". I have never read about this term before at this forum. Also, the e-mail contains pictures. For me, I was concerned about opening this e-mail because of all the bad things that could come with bad e-mails. That is why I checked first with this forum about the e-mail before opening it. I actually had already reported it as SPAM to Trend before I realized what it was. Bat rays? We don't need no stinking bat rays!

07-09-2006, 08:59 AM	#20
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	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=qy4rbab.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. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman