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LinkedIn: A list-building opportunity?

Wow! 500+ new subscribers! It seems an exciting and easy opportunity, doesn’t it? If you’re like me, you’ve got a big list of contacts that you’ve “linked up” with on social (business) networking site LinkedIn. So many email addresses! My suggestion, however, is to resist the urge to export all of your LinkedIn contacts to subscribe them to any sort of email list. Don't do it. If you’re …
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Work-at-Home Spam, Scam or both?

Check out this wonderful story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune , wherein a dupe robocalls a reporter for the paper. The consumer watchdog reporter -- aka "The Whistleblower." Oops. From the story : The product he was pitching was something called an “extractor.”…

Speaking of Business Contact Databases

Check out Chad White's blog post today over on his Retail Email Blog . Kevin Akeroyd, COO of Jigsaw, is said to have presented at the EM9 Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Chad has collected live responses from those in the audience during the p…

Blink: 32 new spams.

Hi from DC. I'm taking a break from the FTC Spam Summit 2007 to swap laptop batteries and check email. Just as I got back to my hotel room, I got a page from a monitoring script I had set up. One of my spamtrap mailboxes was almost full and needed housecleaning. I logged …

Spamming That New Account

Q: How long does it take a new Gmail account to get spam? A: In my case, one day. May 26: Create account. Address has never been given out to anyone. May 27: Receive weird spam in Chinese. Q: How long does it take for an address, published on the web, to be harvested? A:…

Flixster Wants Your Passwords

Anne Mitchell pointed me toward a post on her Internet Patrol blog about how Flixster’s “invite a friend” functionality either asks you for or allows you to give Flixster your AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail passwords. Then Flixster logs in to your email account , finds your a…

Google Code Search

On Friday, NetworkWorld talked about Google's new "Code Search" tool : "The company's new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information …