Thursday, January 17, 2008

SPAM sent by supposedly reputable businesses

Today I received an email from Software & Systems Quality Conferences. Nothing exciting there, except that the email address it was sent to I have never used. The domain name associated with the email address "unpublishedname.com" I bought to catch a common misspelling of my name. The only place someone could have got this email address was to find the domain name in the register of domain names and then place "info@" in front of the domain name and send something to that email address.

If this company bought a list of email addresses from a broker company (someone with a list of email addresses to sell), then it was that company that got my email address. Whatever way it happened, in my mind I would never trust a company that uses the tactic of sending emails advertising conferences using an email address I never gave to anyone AND sending me a newsletter I did not request.

The conference they are advertising Software & Systems Quality Conference Dublin, is sponsored by very reputable companies like ComputerScope and people like AIB and Microsoft are presenting at it. I wonder what they would think of the lead generation methods of Software & Systems Quality Conferences?

I get enough spam and I don't need any more from so called reputable companies.

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