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Lame spams of the day: Fake Amazon and PayPal receipts

Robert Weiner

They're similar to the fake Amazon HDTV receipts I wrote about in September. These aren't as lame-looking as most of the spam I write about: they use the right logos, fonts, and typefaces. 2) The Amazon receipts have no details about what I purchased. 3) I got a dozen of the Amazon spams. Sample Amazon spam:

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How to rent or buy an email list and why YOU should avoid it like the plague

Whole Whale

CAN-SPAM fines Let’s start with the scary legal argument: it is technically illegal to send unsolicited, ‘cold emails’ to people that haven’t opted-in to hear from your organization. Learn more about the CAN-SPAM fines which can be up to $16,000 per violation. Offer a Amazon gift cards as a signup promotion.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. I thought it was spam. This is what I'm trying to do with dispersed fiction: to hide it all over the web. You make up a unique keyword and use that in all the entries.

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The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. I kept worrying that email would be replaced by something else – RSS feeds, mobile, IM or some other form of communication we had not yet experienced. Cause marketing?

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The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. I kept worrying that email would be replaced by something else – RSS feeds, mobile, IM or some other form of communication we had not yet experienced. Cause marketing?