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Hope
10-01-2002, 09:17/09:17AM
I have seen a lot of ways to "hide" the fact that an email is spam. This one is new to me though.

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
(InstantInternetEmp@msn.com) on Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 19:46:28
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Hello: Your site is great. I really enjoyed it

This was in the begining of a VERY long spam mail. They are selling some pdf files and some ebooks.

I know that this was not sent from a "feedback form" on my site, because my site isn't up yet. I haven't even coded my site yet.



Heidi

ihelpyou
10-01-2002, 09:41/09:41AM
I get those ALL the time. Reason I get them is because they have copied my actual form from the site that people use to actually send me feedback. It looks exactly like the email I get when someone does send me feedback. Very sneaky and VERY spammy.

MsSearch
10-01-2002, 11:09/11:09AM
I get these all the time on my AOL account. :rolleyes:

Very spammy, very annoying..i also do not have a form online that links back to this email address....

ihelpyou
10-01-2002, 11:14/11:14AM
No, all the spammers do is copy their own form. Most forms are pretty standard with what they send back to the webmaster. They are simply included this standard form with their spam emails.

Advisor
10-01-2002, 12:15/12:15PM
Those are the exact types of spam that I bother to report to SpamCop. I can't take the time to report them all any more, but ones that try tricky things like that are my main targets. They piss me off! The others that say thanks for signing up for my newsletter are the other ones that piss me off. Other than that I mostly only submit the stupid alleged SEO firm spams. Hard to figure how those companies can stay in business.

J

Kal
11-01-2002, 20:28/08:28PM
Yep, I get this one a lot. Actually one last week like this also had a worm virus attached - charming. :rolleyes: