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It's Pathetic when...

by InternetMarketingIQ
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The very companies you supposedly partner with sell your name and email information to other vendors.

I create unique email addresses for each affliate I promote, so it's very easy to figure out who is selling my name to whom.

This also allows me to kill off emails addresses when the spam just gets to be too much. I learned this lesson the hard way years back when I signed up for most programs with a single email address.

At that time I was getting as many as 1,000 pieces of spam mail a day. I couldn't kill the address because I needed it for so many log ins.

Just a warning. Sad when your business partners don't value your privacy.
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    Hehe, thats why I have a spam account basically, I just pile all the IM offers into one account and see the types of things they are doing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    This is why we all have some type of spam account because of this very thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author OMI
    I use Mailwasher Pro to act as a filter between my email accounts and Outlook. Everything comes in for me to see, but spam or unrecognizable email is automatically flagged for me to delete (and even bounce back so it will seem as if my email does not exist).

    After I process all of the email, I can then download the good email to my Outlook.

    There's a free trial if you want to check it out first.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by OMI View Post

      I use Mailwasher Pro to act as a filter between my email accounts and Outlook. Everything comes in for me to see, but spam or unrecognizable email is automatically flagged for me to delete (and even bounce back so it will seem as if my email does not exist).

      After I process all of the email, I can then download the good email to my Outlook.

      There's a free trial if you want to check it out first.
      Explain the value of that to me, if you don't mind. I mean, you're just using a different program to sort out and delete the spam. What difference does it make to view spam on the server with one program to delete it or view it on your computer with another program to delete it? It seems to me that would take longer as you have to open an extra program and go through your mail twice, albeit not as much the second time. I suppose there is added virus protection that way...anything else?
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      • Profile picture of the author OMI
        Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

        Explain the value of that to me, if you don't mind. I mean, you're just using a different program to sort out and delete the spam. What difference does it make to view spam on the server with one program to delete it or view it on your computer with another program to delete it? It seems to me that would take longer as you have to open an extra program and go through your mail twice, albeit not as much the second time. I suppose there is added virus protection that way...anything else?
        If you depend on your Outlook (or other email) filters, the spammer will continue to email you because they know it's getting through (no bounce back errors).

        Mailwasher stays open and can run in the background. It notifies me when I have email, I check it, if it's spam, it will remove it for me and bounce it back letting the spammer think the email address is not valid, thus (hopefully) removing me from their list. If it's something I want to keep, I just tell Mailwasher it's not spam and it won't flag that sender anymore.

        I've been using Mailwasher for several years and it really does reduce the spam I used to get. I join sites all the time and when an influx of emails start coming in that I don't want, I mark them as spam. Mailwasher will learn what I don't like and if an email from someone I've marked as spam before comes in, it's automatically flagged and marked for deletion.

        The only time I really choose to download my email to Outlook is when I need to reply to someone. Otherwise, I just keep Mailwasher open and use it as my email viewer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lisa Gergets
    I recently got accepted to two CPA networks...now my inbox is FLOODED with various CPA email offers...it's ridiculous and pathetic, I agree.
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  • Profile picture of the author OMI
    And Mailwasher does flag suspicious emails that have potential viruses, too. It also shows you if an email has an attachment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amber Jalink
    You know its funny, I was thinking this same thing the other day.

    I recently bought just a few WSO's (maybe 5) - when in the past I'd rarely bought anything as I wasn't in the forum as much... however, all of a sudden I'm getting SPAM at my paypal email, that is reserved exclusively for making / receiving payments and dealing with my customers.

    And, half the time they're addressing it to my name - when I have NO clue who these people are.

    So obviously one of those people felt it was okay to sell it.

    I know it's big business, but where's the respect for us??

    I really prefer when companies give a CHOICE > receive direct emails or NOT, or at the very least, allow us to specify an alternate address.

    Thanks for posting this and bringing it to the attention of others. I thought about it but wasn't sure I should - and I love your idea. (I used to do that with domains, using alternate emails, but found when I used aliases suddenly spammers created every possible name on my domain - I literally had 20,000 emails attempting to come in until I quickly had to shut the alias options off).

    But... creating them as "real" emails might not be too bad of an idea.

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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    @ OMI - Thanks for the answer. I had it on my last computer. I used it to delete a corrupt email that prevented my other emails from downloading. Didn't use it much though and never put it back on this one. May have to take a fresh look at it.
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