anyone get this spam?

[universal4]

Anyone else get the spam from Jayne.Gregory@hotmail.com


I got one today with the subject line

Congratulations, you have just received $1000 free - No Depsoit Required

The first part of the spam mail appears this disclaimer:
You are receiving this message, because you have subscribed to the coinsus
newsletter on Monday, July 04, 2011. To ensure that you continue to receive emails
from us, add Jayne.Gregory@hotmail.com to your address book promptly.


Anyone want to speculate that this is a database from Coins?

If anyone can confirm this (such as a specific email address used to sign up for Coins)...

Currently it is only speculation that this could be the result of a db coming out of there.

Rick
Universal4

[GFPC]

Rick I think i got that to 2 email addresses - one of them specifically only for Aff accounts. However instead of really looking at it I just tossed it.

I usually send them gross replies of an indecent nature but had no time for that. But for what its worth I got that as well or something similar.

[universal4]

This person is still at it....

I don't have any idea who this is or where they purchased or compiled their list from, but am getting fed up with the increase of spam I have seen lately......

This person added me to this "list" WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.

Today I actually followed the first few links in the spam and see they are promoting the GWages group of casinos so it pretty much shows how much they care about the players....(not)

I did send the person an email today with a link to this thread.

Rick
Universal4

[Pokerfan]

Hi Universal
I think Renee might be able to help with the identity of this spammer.

I was getting the same emails a few weeks back only they were pushing all the casino rewards casino's, I reported them to her and she seemed to put a stop to it,

Then a few days later i started receiving the same ones as you pushing GWages.

Have you tried all the links in the emails because if it was the same spam as mine there were still some Rewards Casino's in there but not as many as there was.

Like you i didn't sign up for anything from them either.
These people are habitual spammers and need their aff accounts closed down.

[universal4]

Well if this is the same person and you notified Renee, I am fairly sure she followed up with the affiliate....so maybe the affiliate doesn't care too much if they lose their affiliate account??

Rick
Universal4

[rak]

Sometimes the aff program gets stung by companies who rave about their marketing services, and their proven track record of being able to deliver qualified players and traffic. I know as an advertiser back in the day, I paid $2k for a marketing package, from a reputable company at the time for exposure of a site I was running - and the heat was not worth it. Sometimes I think these companies try to maintain casino groups as clients and go out and acquire lists.

In the last month - I've had at least 4 skypes / emails from people offering to sell lists. We just keep saying no.

My personal email address currently has 8500 spam emails in 4 days. sick.
314 of them has the word casino in them.

[Daera]

I'm pretty sure I got the same email. Looks very familiar, but it would have been deleted if it hit my spam folder and it would have. I'll look closer if I get it again.

I HATE SPAM

[universal4]

I took a look today at a few of my other email accounts.....

Over the last few weeks, one email account only got around 50 or 60 casino spams....

And the only place the email account is used is ebay....NEVER anywhere else, and NEVER been used to sign up for anything....

My paypal email address...same thing happened....and in fact many of the exact same spams on the exact same days...

Rick
Universal4

[Pokerfan]

so maybe the affiliate doesn't care too much if they lose their affiliate account??

Rick
Universal4

Does that ever happen ? Only when i have reported spam im either told that there is nothing that the affiliate program can do about it or they will contact the affiliate to get your email dropped from a mailing list that you never signed up for in the beginning. In rare cases im told that they will look into it,

I sometimes think affiliate programs, zero spam polices are only put on their websites for show

[Daera]

Does that ever happen ? Only when i have reported spam im either told that there is nothing that the affiliate program can do about it or they will contact the affiliate to get your email dropped from a mailing list that you never signed up for in the beginning. In rare cases im told that they will look into it,

I sometimes think affiliate programs, zero spam polices are only put on their websites for show

Sometimes think? I definitely do think that it's pretty much always for show. Unfortunately, I bet there's pretty much always tolerance with their really big affiliates and with deals their marketing departments make. If the spam is bringing them players and making them money, I doubt they'll always just shut it down.

[universal4]

Does anyone know who the H*** this is?

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Based upon what it states I am starting to wonder if this is an ex-coins employee, or if the list was purchased from them.

Rick
Universal4