Further I don't find many are from legitimate companies - or regular
businesses - so that there is deliberate mis-spellings and merging of words
in the titles which are clearly intended to evade spam-filters - and also
there is a hook so that the title has no relation to the content.
I presume that the whole point is that spams are sent from outside the
jurisdiction of its intended recipients, because of the difficulty of
pursuing offenders outside the country of residence of the recipient.
Nick Landau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Howarth" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Email footers, Websites etc
> My experience is very much the opposite. I get between 90 and 120 spam
> emails daily (most of which get trapped by my spam filter, thankfully),
> however only a very small proportion, maybe 3 or 4 per day tend to be from
> UK companies.
>
> Simon Howarth.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Turner
> Sent: 04 January 2007 10:24
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Email footers, Websites etc
>
> Nope - no irony. A lot of the spam I get (as opposed to the spam that is
> sent to me but which gets trapped by my ISP) is from UK companies. I
> maintain that it's a good thing that I know who they are, or that they
> don't
> want to tell me who they are.
>
> Tim Turner
> Data Protection / FOI Officer
> Legal and Property Services
> Wigan Council
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
> Sent: Thu 04 January 2007 10:07
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Email footers, Websites etc
>
> In message
> <[log in to unmask]>, at
> 12:52:30
> on Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tim Turner <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>For one thing, if I get spam from now on, I should be guaranteed to
>>have someone to contact. It won't help with the Korean purveyors of
>>dodgy medication, but the vast majority of companies who are otherwise
>>on the level should comply with the new rules and I will know where to
> start.
>
> You are being ironic, I assume.
>
> About 1 in 10,000 of the spams I get are from a "clueless but otherwise
> legitimate UK company". 9,999 are about dodgy medication etc (including
> more
> recently a huge increase in "pump and dump" schemes).
> --
> Roland Perry
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