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Spam: Invitation to Bid on Transformers, Please see the attached document for details on the Transformers, www.cirinc.com
Examples of Spam Email: Invitation to Bid on Transformers
"Please see the attached document for details on the Transformers",
Spammer's website: www.cirinc.com
Have your received an email with the subject "Invitation to Bid on Transformers",
advertising "Please see the attached document for details on the Transformers"? There may have been a link to www.cirinc.com in
the email,too. It a spam email. Spam is unwanted,
unsolicited advertisments, used by unscrupulous
companies to promote their products or services. Often their products are illegal,
unwanted, low quality crap.
See this page for a
detailed description of spam and what to do about it.
From:
Christy Servine [mailto:Christy@cirinc.com]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 2:44 PM
To:
Sales
Subject: Invitation to Bid on
Transformers
Please see the
attached document for details on the Transformers
located in Uvalda, Georgia. This bid closes
on May 20, 2013 at 5pm EST.
You can also view all
available equipment online at:
www.cirinc.com.
Please call Frank at
(386) 623-9681 or email
Sales@CIRinc.com
with any questions.
Thank you,
Christy
Christy Servine
Marketing Manager
|
Certified Investment Recovery Inc.
Office:
858-345-1086
| Cell: 760-707-4349
|
Fax: 760-683-3148
Custom Tailored Investment Recovery Solutions
What to do:
If you are a U.S. citizen or
resident who receives a spam email that you think is
deceptive, forward the email to
spam@uce.gov. The FTC uses the spam stored in this
database to pursue law enforcement actions against
people who send deceptive email.See
this page for other places to report spam and where to
report in other countries.
And don't think for a moment that the "sent from" or "reply to" addresses are
real.. or really who sent it. See
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If you are interested in ththe costs and
psychology behind spam, see this page!
How to protect from getting spam
- Don't click on the "unsubscribe" linksb> in the email if you don't
recognize the sender or company sending the mail. That simply confirms your address
is real to the spammer
- Don't ever reply to spam - again, that simply confirms your address
to the spammer. Never write back and ask to be taken
off the list
- Don't offer your email address to any websites
that don't have a privacy policy
- Don't publish your e-mail address on any Web
site or discussion forum. If necessary, obfuscate
e-mail address: for example, write an e-mail address
as "myname at mycompany dot com."
- Use a separate e-mail address (such as a free Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail
account) to sign up for newsletters, online posting, trade shows and
anything you respond to on the internet. If the mailbox gets unwieldy, you
can delete it or filter it more aggressively.
- Use anti-spam software.
- Try to filter your email - a link at the
scam busters site will show you exactly how to do
this. Or your ISP might provide a filtering service
or be able to tell you how to set one up yourself.
- Don't ever buy anything from spammers.
- Don't write to or give your email address out to clueless folks,
whether they are friends or family. Inevitably, those people will fail
to use up-to-date firewalls, ant-virus, anti-spyware, and they will visit
dubious scam websites. Sooner or later, their pc will become infected,
and the virus or worm will harvest all of the email addresses in their
Outlook or other email client.
- How to Stop Spam almost forever! You don't have to face an inbox full of
porn, spam, scams and junk every day.
HeHere's how
to stop it.
What to do if you DO get spam:
- Don't unsubscribe immediately. After a few
weeks, compare the messages you want to unsubscribe
from and look for common traits, such as common
strings of text that you can use to block further
mail. li>
- Do complain to your internet service provider (ISP)
and to the spammer's ISP - and remember to include
the junk mail's entire header
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Check here for a list of companies that use spam to
promote their products - never purchase anything
from these companies. Send us a copy of spam
and we will add the company to the list.
- If the spammer is a US address, email your spam
to the spam recycling centre at
spamrecycle@ChooseYourMail.com (they will
forward the message to state and federal authorities
-
Click here to see a list of spam email, with
images of the actual email and their website.
You can use this to compare against the spam you
receive and report them to the FTC!
- Do set up a private email address for friends and
associates and use a free web-based email address
(like
Yahoo or Hotmail) for any interactions you
have with other websites and companies
For a comprehensive list
of national and international agencies to report scams, see this page.