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More lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

At their best, these are way more entertaining than email spam -- lots of creative English, garbled syntax, and mixed metaphors ("gladsome to mature this website," "earmarks of the army has recruited on boob tube," "Lossing albatross is benificial," "your current article causes me completely happy"). Thanks For Share Robert L.

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

The Modern Nonprofit

We all strive to keep our cause, our mission, afloat and thriving. 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. One key to doing that?

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Ensuring Email Deliverability—Updates to Gmail + Yahoo

Media Cause

On February 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo will roll out new requirements, which include bulk senders authenticating their emails, making unsubscribing easy, and staying under a spam rate threshold. Low User-Reported Spam: Senders must stay under a 0.3% spam rate threshold or risk being marked as spam.

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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 of the Day: Poker Associates

Robert Weiner

This spam is typical of "you've won the lottery" scams. There's no link or attachment, so one would have to reply to test@xiaoyinmu.com -- wouldn't that cause some concerns? I'm mostly tickled by the sender's name. Would you bet on Poker Associates? Sender: POKER ASSOCIATES (test@xiaoyinmu.com). Subject: RE:THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

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Lame spams of the day: more fake ADP notices

Robert Weiner

I got a new batch of lame ADP spams this morning (see the old batch here ). Event Cause: Processing. Instance Cause: Upload. These are really lame -- no graphics, plain text, mangled English. But they want me to take a customer satisfaction survey -- I can't wait. This site says they're malware delivery devices, so don't click.

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5 Reasons Tech is a Must-Have for Marketing Your Nonprofit’s Golf Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s a good idea to combine standalone tournament marketing emails with your regular campaigns to maximize visibility and minimize spamming supporters’ inboxes. This helps sponsors demonstrate their support of a good cause, while boosting your marketing efforts exponentially. Email campaigns.

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