While perusing through my Junk E-Mail folder this morning, I noticed an interesting-looking spammy item that invited me to an extras casting call.
Well, that wasn’t the interesting part. The really interesting part was that there was a privacy policy and license attached to the email. The policy/license stated that by clicking the remove email link, I was granting the spammer to send me more spam. At least they’re honest.
WARNING: DO NOT OPEN ANY OF THESE LINKS… OR DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Here’s a paste of the policy:
Privacy Policy - Terms and Conditions of this Email:
This notice outlines the privacy policies associated with his Email. By clicking any image and/or text link in this Email (excluding the removal link), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. As such, you are representing that you have the authority and are authorizing http://istevedaily.com and/or any of its business associates to contact you via email, postal mail, or telephonically with information stored in the http://istevedaily.com database.
Changes to the Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to check the Privacy Policy in each new email sent to you regularly. Your continued use of our email service following any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes. This privacy policy was last amended on October 9th, 2006.
Personal Information and IP Address:
Each time you view and/or click any image or text link in a http://istevedaily.com sponsored email, our web server automatically recognizes your IP address and contact information. Your IP address is used to help us identify and gather broad demographic information about you. We also use your IP address and contact information to help diagnose problems with our servers, pre-populate http://istevedaily.com administered Web Sites, and to better serve you in using the features associated with our email service.
View Complete Policy Here.
Contacting Us About Privacy Questions Or Concerns:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy(at)http://istevedaily.com, or by sending a letter to:
Privacy, 2526 1st Street , Santa Monica, CA, 90405
July 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Check out the email address they give as well… I’m thinking it won’t work
privacy@http://istevedaily.com doesn’t quite look like a properly formatted email address somehow.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am
So what you are really saying is that you have so little to do that you are nit picking what is an obvious typo?
First off cybermage
it clearly shows privacy(at) not privacy@
second:
the http:// is obvious and most intelligent people will see that and remove it
third:
looks to me like their server just has a script wrong. FAR from such an attempt to make it a fake url. I dont personally see anything amiss in their privacy policy.
For can-spam compliance that email had to have both a physical opt-out address and at least 1 opt-out link for both the advertiser and the mailer IN THE BODY of the message (privacy policy doesnt count)
Of course if you click their Non-opt out links it re-confirms you, after all YOU are CLICKING the links. It would really help if you looked at what you were clicking before you just click it.
So with that in mind, you must have opt-in to begin with or you would not have ended up on their list. If you did not then ask them to provide opt-in info, i got email from that domain in June/July as well and you know what…. My opt-in info was CLEARLY IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE.
Please post more articles like showing how little attention you pay to things before you go “internet whining”.
We have enough spam mail without crappy spam blogs too.