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What The Hell? I Think I Have Had Enough Of Aweber Here's Why

by entrepreneurjay
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What The Hell? I Think I Have Had Enough Of Aweber Here's Why

I just received an email from myself that I did not send. In the subject line is my name along with an email to a Clickbank product that redirects to Click2sell for the payment.

I checked all of my autoresponder messages and broadcasts to make sure I am not imagining things and sure enough it wasn't any message from me sent by accident.

My name is in the sender box thats what freaks me out, along with a paid email promoting some product with none of my affiliate links wtf!

Does this have to do with Aweber being hacked recently? I am thinking it does.

Heck I will post the whole damn email message. Let me know what you guys think I might be switching email providers real soon if this is the case.

The subject line was my full name which I am thinking is going out to a majority of my list without my knowledge.

What do you guys think I should do?

Here is the email

My name as sender

Subject: A New System Generated $27,352 In First 30 Days!
Dear Friend,

I thought you would be interested in this product.

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It doesn't matter If you've never even earned
a single cent online before...

JUST CLICK THE LINK BELOW:

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Best Regards,

Evelyn
Valued Member

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#aweber #hell
  • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
    I think you should e-mail their support regarding this first before deciding what to do? That would be better.. it might have been just a minor error or misunderstanding
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  • Profile picture of the author TheNightOwl
    It's more than likely spammers spoofing your name as the sender. Now that you've opened the email, look in the headers and you'll no doubt find that it wasn't signed by Aweber, but some random server in Turkmenistan or, uh, Idaho.

    By all means contact Aweber because what would I know?

    Oh, and you might want to edit your post and remove the spammer's links.
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    • Profile picture of the author secrets2010
      Originally Posted by TheNightOwl View Post

      It's more than likely spammers spoofing your name as the sender. Now that you've opened the email, look in the headers and you'll no doubt find that it wasn't signed by Aweber, but some random server in Turkmenistan or, uh, Idaho.

      By all means contact Aweber because what would I know?

      Oh, and you might want to edit your post and remove the spammer's links.
      yes exactly check who is the sender of the email...I'm getting emails from "clickbank", "paypal" and so on...but actually it seems is some guy who just changes the "sender information"

      By the way, sometimes my hotmail account is hacked and the hacker sends spam messages to my contacts and I cant do anything about that...so that could happen to aweber as well if it has happened to hotmail...

      Just I d like to know what happen to these guys...if a marketer that forgets to mention an earning disclaimer gets into some trouble...I imagine that those guys should worry if someony catches them...
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  • Profile picture of the author TheNightOwl
    Or... you might like to read what I just found:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...sed-again.html

    I don't come here very often anymore and seem to have missed that kerfuffle. Am still on the first page (thought I'd come back and post an addendum here), but it looks concerning if Aweber have been compromised again.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    The affiliate name is pultog, so I would report it to Clickbank and open a support ticket at Aweber and of course change your password to Aweber immediately.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Do you have any web sites that have a contact form? Sometimes spammers can compromise a contact form to send you messages that appear to come from yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
    I think you should check your broadcasts, and see if an e-mail was even sent to 'your' list.

    If no e-mail was actually sent to your list...

    I think that somebody might have added your name to 'their' list manually, and included the {!name_} tag in the 'from' field on accident. So everybody he sends it to, has 'their' name in the 'from' field.

    You should also go down to the bottom of the e-mail, and click on the 'unsubscribe' link, and check to make sure you would actually be unsubscribing from 'your' list, and not somebody else's.

    If if is in fact your list, contact Aweber and read over their terms of service on your account to see if you can take action against them for such a security flaw.
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  • Profile picture of the author BillM
    I have always thought aweber was the best until today when they purposely deleted list I have built for years. When I called in their reason was that if they decide they do not like the programs you're promoting, that they will delete your list and deactivate as well.

    It's sick that a company that has been paid every month for years can cause me hell like this. I am contacting my lawyer in the morning. The owner want to play judge and take the money for years and now screw good customers. I have never had one complaint.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adam Roy
      Originally Posted by BillM View Post

      I have always thought aweber was the best until today when they purposely deleted list I have built for years. When I called in their reason was that if they decide they do not like the programs you're promoting, that they will delete your list and deactivate as well.

      It's sick that a company that has been paid every month for years can cause me hell like this. I am contacting my lawyer in the morning. The owner want to play judge and take the money for years and now screw good customers. I have never had one complaint.
      I want to be updated on that! Keep posting updates!
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    FYI I received that exact email this morning - it had been marked as spam and I deleted it.
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  • Profile picture of the author DynamicIMS
    Does anyone have any recommendations of another rock solid non- reseller of aweber email service?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joshua Bretag
    @dynamicIMS the next step down from the aweber spam problem is I would recommend I contact (a little bit harder to navigate if you are new) but deliverability rates are about the same only does not have as many nice looking graphics and templates as aweber.

    Regards
    Josh
    The Crazy Email Marketing Professor
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    Blueprint Solutions - Looking For People to Resell our Services, Clients pay double the price to our resellers.
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    • Profile picture of the author mcmahanusa
      I have experienced this a number of times, before I even used an autoresponder. I automatically assumed that it was just a spammer who thinks I'm an idiot, and I just deleted without opening.

      Of course it's possible that I'm losing it and really did send myself promotional emails.
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