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From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:07 AM
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).
> --
I presume that I am not the only person that didn't know what "pump and
dump" schemes are - so in the interests of research
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/pump-and-dump_spam_tactics/.
I am not sure that I am much the wiser but...
Nick Landau
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