Twats!

“At Emailmovers we specialise in helping our customers to make more sales. The secret is the way we append extra B2B email addresses to your customer database

“For a limited period we will process one of your lists free and tell you how many named, personal B2B email addresses we could add – all in the correct company formats! It’s an unbeatable offer using our state-of-the-art technology. And the results could amaze you

“It’s quick, simple – and no hidden charges. Promise.

“To get started, just reply to this email or contact me direct on 01723 800034. For more details or a copy of our email append brochure, just Click Here

“With best wishes for better marketing,

“Jim Raine
Senior Email Data Consultant”

Let’s hope their customer lists are opt-in … unlike this bunch of spammers’ one.

“builds relationships, loyalty and trust”.

ORLY?

They’re now using I-Promoter to send the spams too.

They say:

“As a leading UK mailing list company, The UK Data Company prides itself on providing targeted mailing list solutions that satisfy the specific mailing list requirements of each individual client.

We specialise in compiling bespoke UK and International mailing lists for accurate and pro-active direct mail marketing, telemarketing, fax and email marketing campaigns.”

Well good for you! Nothing about compiling lists that actually comply with English and EU law then.

So let’s hope that sales@ukdata.biz or simong@ukdata.biz don’t get too much spam themselves. No doubt that spam would also come from other members of the good old DMA.

After all, they claim in one of their recent spams that:

“The UK Data Company is registered with the DMA – List Warranty Register and Data Protection”

You’d think they’d know the rules…

Take a look at their latest product: Google Friend Connect. It’s an application/suite of apps. that can easily add social networking features to an otherwise static website and requires little programming or coding knowledge by the website owner. There’s a video that explains how it works.

All your friends and other members of the public need is a Google Account to be able to interact with your website. And therein lies the problem.

I run a number of message boards and blogs and have noticed more and more of the spam signups/user registrations are coming from confirmed Gmail addresses, i.e. spammers with fire and forget Google accounts. So imagine your spangly new website features. How long before they would be full of comment spams linking to online casinos and drugstores? About as long as it would take for Google to find your site and include it in Google searches, I’d bet.

Such a pity because if that Utopia were to exist, it’d be a fabulous thing.