Recruiting spam

[AMonger]

I would not call anyone anything unless I have proof. The only thing you have said that can make it spam is no unsubscribe link. To demand they be fired when it could easily be a simple oversight is a little much imho.

A simple oversight? Well, let's see...the message had to be written, addressed, and then someone had to click SEND, none of which are involuntary actions like a sneeze. So it can't be an oversight.

If it was spoofed, that can be found out. Step one is getting FECC to recognize that one of their people might be a spamming scumbag and to look into it. Their IT people can determine in seconds if it was a spoof job or really came from his computer and/or email address.

Aside from having no unsubscribe link, it was also unsolicited and commercial, two other legal characteristics of spam.

If this Kinaitis jackball did knowingly and intentionally send this, he's not just a jerk but a criminal who, like every spammer, should be fired and prosecuted.

 

[ATeam]

E-mail addresses are difficult to keep private even when you try.

Example: I once received an e-mail from a social networking site that I had never heard of before. It was an invitation to join. I later figured out that they got my address from a friend of mine who had my e-mail address in her address book and opened the address book to the site.

She did so because the site encouraged her to do so, saying it would be an easy way for her to find out what people she knew were already members of the site. She did not sell my address. She intended no harm. She did not even realize that by opening her address book she would be giving away the e-mail addresses of everyone she had on file.

The only way I know to keep an e-mail address private is to never send an e-mail to anyone and never give the address out. That spam reduction and privacy preservation technique will be 100% effective but it also defeats the purpose of having and using an e-mail address in the first place.

The practical approach is to have a public e-mail address and use a good spam blocker. You can set up a so-called private e-mail account but it will not remain private forever, and maybe not even for long.

 

[RoadKing06]

I agree A Team. It was no problem to me, I just hit delete. I know as a Realtor, I used to send out multiple emails as well. It is just another tool for advertising.

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[Jack_Berry]

i got one also. so......how are those fed ex van teams doing?

 

[AMonger]

I agree A Team. It was no problem to me, I just hit delete. I know as a Realtor, I used to send out multiple emails as well. It is just another tool for advertising.

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Well, no wonder you don't object; you're one of the criminals. If the mail you sent was a) unsolicited; b) commercial in nature; c) was sent to multiple individuals; and d) contained no method to be removed from future mailings, then you were committing a crime and should be prosecuted. Were you a real estate agent or an actual Realtor? What would the Nat'l Association of Realtors think of spamming?

You should have been arrested--cuffed, stuffed, and perp-walked, fingerprinted, mug-shotted, and then prosecuted.

 

[greg334]

Actually a lot of spam isn't sent directly to your mail box but rather to random groups of addresses and some of the servers dump copies in all the mail boxes.

I also believe if you have a blog or website which you do not encrypt your address, it is scrapped or harvested off the site. The same goes for "social networking" sites which I refuse to join because I have enough to deal with and do not trust any of them.

BUT I'm with you on this Amonger, I don't like getting emails from these companies and have sent them back with some nasty replies to the managers in the company - which you can get easier than you think.

 

[Dakota]

Whaaaaa! I didn't get the offer.
I'm so depressed.

You can have my offer I didn't sign up for fedex but I have been getting E-mails and phone calls. Maybe I signed up for a contest at the Expeditor show and am now on their radar

 

[Ragman]

You can have my offer I didn't sign up for fedex but I have been getting E-mails and phone calls. Maybe I signed up for a contest at the Expeditor show and am now on their radar

Awwww, thanks! You do love me.

 

[davekc]

They probably heard you painted your boxes white

You may be on to something.

 

[xiggi]

If the mail you sent was a) unsolicited; b) commercial in nature; c) was sent to multiple individuals; and d) contained no method to be removed from future mailings,

A Unsolicited - legal
B Commercial - legal
C Multiple recipients - legal
D.No unsubscribe method - Your right on that one you do have to have that.

Because something is legal does not mean it adheres to what is referred to as best practices in the online advertising world but it certainly is not prosecutable for using bad judgement. There is a handful of states that the law is a little stricter California being probably the toughest but no one is going to be prosecuted for sending out few hundred email. Nor should they be fired and their livelihood taken away. I guess the next time you make a driving error you should lose your job.

 

[ebsprintin]

AMonger,

Why didn't I get this email if it originates from eo? I think it is being sent to a more targeted audience than would qualify for spam. And just because something is unwanted doesn't make it criminal. Are you airing your grievances here because you couldn't get the issue resolved with eo and FedEx?

eb

 

[jjoerger]

I didn't get the FedEx one, but I do get one from Panther about once every two weeks. I don't get mad or upset about spam or unwanted e mails. I just delete them and go on with my day.
Besides, if it weren't for spam and e bills I wouldn't get any mail at all.

 

[Dabus1952]

I too received that this AM .It didnt really bother me.It is part of being on the world wide internet.

 

[Freightdawg]

i got one also. so......how are those fed ex van teams doing?

That was my first thought too.

 

[nightcreacher]

THey must still be mad at me,I didn't get one either

 

[danthewolf00]

not only did i get email but eric called me twice first time to see if i wanted to drive a s/t ot t/t for them then a second time for my sprinter to come work for them....i never gave my cell out to fed ex wonder how they got that

 

[OntarioVanMan]

in all my years I have never received a recruiting email ...never...not one...

I have noticed a change in my spam however..where I used to get Viagra and "enlargement" emails....NOW I get senior citizen spam and things about incontinence?!!

 

[RoadKing06]

Yes I sent emails out for my Real Estate business and I am a Realtor and an Auctioneer and a Notary for that matter. I did nothing illegal. I did give the option for the receiver of my emails to be taken off my email list.
The NAR has sponsored classes on how to advertise via email and the internet, so I don't think they would have any problems with me using the programs that were suggested to me by classes sponsored by them!

I just have better and more complicated things to worry about than a recruiter sending me email. It does bother me that I get emails offering me Viagra, or Excite, or dating services, but I know that it is all part of having an email address or even a house address where paper junk mail is sent. Part of life and that is want the trash bin (delete) is for.

Email addresses are gotten when you sign up for drawings, fill out any form requesting your email, such as a warranty card. The same way home addresses and phone numbers used to be, well still are email is just free for the advertiser.

Part of using the internet, at least that is how I deal with it.

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[zero3nine]

It's similar to the threads on whether or not one should object to warrantless searches at the border or seatbelt checkpoints or something like that. I don't understand people who don't strenuously object and don't work to make sure it stops. When you find a slippery slope, if you don't break out the salt and/or ice choppers, things are going to get ugly.

I want the spammer fired immediately.

Ridiculous. Have you ever received an email forwarded to your address with other email addresses attached to it? Or sent directly to you by a known source and also cc'd to others?

Now your email address is exposed to everything each of those people has on their computers.

You said the address is connected to expediting. That leads me to believe you have communicated with at least one other person on here. Every piece of malware on the other person's computer can get your address.

I get zero spam or unwanted email from EO.

fired at you from my Droideka

 

[purgoose10]

Nobody love's me. Not one.