At 15:02 19/01/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Now this is seriously creepy. I have never visited their web site and
>don't plan to do so despite the invitation. But a few weeks ago I was in
>London and wandering round near Bond Street saw this shop spyworld. I
>wandered up to the window and peered in - and saw myself on camera. I then
>walked on. I did not go into the shop. Did they get my e mail address
>from that glimpse? Or is it just coincidence and they are sending these to
>loads of people? Any suggestions what I should do about this e mail would
>be welcome.
Charles,
I'd say delete it. I had one, and hadn't been anywhere near Bond Street for
some time. More likely they have been picking up lists off some JANET web
site where our addresses appear. (www.jisc.ac.uk probably has both of us,
for example). That would actually be an unusually accurate instance of
targetting e-mails - when I was at Cardiff we had a number of e-mail lists
"borrowed" for totally inappropriate messages. One of my favourites was an
advert for e-mail targetting software :-)
Interestingly I reckon the ratio of junk to valid is considerably higher in
my snail-mail box than it is in my e-mail one. In time we'll probably just
get into the way of binning the e-junk with as little thought as we do the
paper stuff.
The one thing *not* to do is reply by e-mail to any of this. That just
confirms that there is a live person sitting behind the e-mail address so
you are likely to get even more in future.
Andrew
>>From: "Spyword" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Surveillance and Counter Surveillance
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:44:44
>>
>> [log in to unmask] recently visited Spyworld Ltd, Spyworld Ltd
>>specialise in providing
>>surveillance and counter surveillance equipment.
>>
>>to find out more go to www.spyworld.co.uk
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Marketing Division
>>Spyworld Ltd
>>
>
>Professor Charles Oppenheim
>Dept of Information Science
>Loughborough University
>Loughborough
>Leics LE11 3TU
>
>Tel 01509-223065
>Fax 01509-223053
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Head of CERT
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