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2016 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study: Spam Still Costing Nonprofits Thousands

EveryAction

Today, EveryAction released the 2016 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study , an exploration into just how much spam is negatively impacting nonprofit online fundraising. Download a copy of the report now - it's free. Why analyze email deliverability? billion emails last year alone.

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Lame spam of the day: spam mashup

Robert Weiner

This plain-text spam has no sender, subject, formatting, or graphics. After that comes what looks like an email header, then some spam text, then a bunch of blank lines, and finally, to cap the effort, random text from travel guides. Monetize your internet connectionb y placing and receiving phone calls over it.

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Lame spam of the day: Validate Your Internet Listing – Yellow PagesUSA

Robert Weiner

The Yellow Pages using spam to get listings? Subject: Validate Your Internet Listing - Yellow PagesUSA. The attachment is a PDF so it's most likely safe but not completely risk free. I searched for subject line and found an example of what I'm guessing is the attachment. Sender: support@yellow-pages-usa.com.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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Lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

I wrote recently about spam in the form of blog comments. Fortunately, my anti-spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) caught them. Your favorite reason seemed to be on the internet the easiest thing to be aware of. This last one is for Ugg boots -- up there with "performance aids" as a source of spam.

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Lame spam roundup

Robert Weiner

Here's a random selection of strange and/or lame spams I've received recently. This one may not be spam, but I'm not going to click and find out. Text: Good day, as promised,(Internet Explorer File). Yes, the hyperlink was the first line of the spam, and points where it says it does. 1: I got several of these.

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Emailing Like a Pro: Navigating Gmail and Yahoo’s New Sender Requirements

The Modern Nonprofit

Keeping our valuable supporters in the loop, and ensuring our messages land right in their inboxes, not the dreaded spam folder. As of February 2024, they’re dialing up their fight against spam with a fresh set of sender requirements. Let’s Keep Those Spam Rates below 0.3% So pull up a chair, and let’s dive in.

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