Nov
03
Afri-Tech Technology spamming via ESP MailChimp
To be honest I’m still unsure how these guys got my corporate email address two (2) years ago and any sort of communications with them have gone un-answered. I’ve never been to any of their conferences and to be honest not sure I would ever go there.
I laughed though when I saw at the very top this little section, “Use this area to offer a short teaser of your email’s content. Text here will show in the preview area of some email clients” Seems like Afri-Tech was in a rush to spam when changing ESP’s again and just copied and pasted their content into a simple template offered by the ESP.
Now, I won’t say that MailChimp is spamming or being disruptive because I’ve seen them in the past take spamming from their network very seriously.
There was an unsubscribe option at the bottom of this one that I did take advantage of, but I doubt when Afri-Tech moves to another ESP as they have in the past they will honour it.
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From: Afri-Tech Group <newsletter@afri-tech.com> Subject: Start getting ready for Afri-Tech South Africa 2012 Reply-To: Afri-Tech Group <newsletter@afri-tech.com> Received: from psmtp.com (64.18.3.135) by s-mail02 (10.100.100.10) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.3.106.1; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:23:47 -0400 Received: from mail115.us1.rsgsv.net ([74.205.22.15]) by exprod8mx235.postini.com ([64.18.7.10]) with SMTP;Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:23:46 EDT Received: from (127.0.0.1) by mail115.us1.rsgsv.net (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r16) id hma3t40lj3g2 for <REDACTED>; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:23:45 -0400 (envelope-from REDACTED@mail115.us1.rsgsv.net>) Sender: Afri-Tech Group <newsletter=afri-tech.com@mail115.us1.rsgsv.net> Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: Start getting ready for Afri-Tech South Africa 2012 Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-Ms-Exchange-Organization-Authas: Anonymous X-Ms-Has-Attach: X-Ms-Tnef-Correlator: X-Pstn-Levels: (S:34.75222/99.90000 CV:99.9000 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:79.0807 C:99.7951 ) X-Pstn-Settings: 3 (1.0000:1.0000) s cv gt3 gt2 gt1 r p M c X-Pstn-Addresses: from <newsletter@afri-tech.com> [458/17] Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; s=k1; d=mail115.us1.rsgsv.net; b=bLr1vwDshQ+pwBJSdqeNNGwnvCUffkJnXM9h7ouuF8FgSIfmAYSBxmmXBfW2Q7X55rUDcVhycj1R 9zmYPw9Z6XjtYCgyf2NWJcTGmsxRHJtkXPxXvRyhRjw4jiZDNIpLwMQTCw9PyOi/h4/vb/H54XOH 2FIjGJsLzQZrA5neQLc=; Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=k1; d=mail115.us1.rsgsv.net; h=Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Date:Message-ID:List-Unsubscribe:Sender:Content-Type:MIME-Version; i=newsletter=3Dafri-tech.com@mail115.us1.rsgsv.net; bh=e8tow/Hc9Yu5iuUGs3Yh62oM8es=; b=LR5mm+5S2f2c7viU7tu1t/I6V/+7LkIjDyiuncsSDTIxVr7nJkk0ZZC4JpKbJc6mtlqXd3k+FUv1 RfmOGDL8MnWDY52FABsEpsJWc0Az2+G7ByhjyO22WHMFTlW09eCxv3QWfAh5q1S+ImoTJ1i8jO+E FMqLlcXP45K9BUkXv3M= Mime-Version: 1.0
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From: Afri-Tech Group <newsletter@afri-tech.com> Subject: Start getting ready for Afri-Tech South Africa 2012 Date: November 3, 2011 12:23:45 PM GMT Reply-To: Afri-Tech Group <newsletter@afri-tech.com> Use this area to offer a short teaser of your email's content. Text here will show in the preview area of some email clients. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Largest Technology Summit Comming To Johannesburg South Africa. After the landmark ‘Digital Marketing’ summit in Nairobi, Afri-Tech is poised to host its next solution- based summit in Johannesburg – “Technology & Digital” summit. This 3 day summit is set to welcome experts from around the globe from 22th – 24th March, 2012.The event is envisioned and conceptualized by some of the most innovative minds of 21st century - in collaboration with the most acclaimed innovators and strategists in the fields of health, education, science & technology and digital marketing. Enjoy 3 full days of leading-edge keynotes presented by the industry’s most successful innovators and strategists. Hear from: Dr Thomas Mensah Chairman of Lightwave and Wireless Systems Corporation Dr. Victor Lawrence Batchelor Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Dean At Stevens Institute of Technology Michael Metz One of B2B Magazine's "Top 25 Digital Marketers of 2011" Plus more! See the full list of Speakers here. This highly anticipated multi-discipline summit is structured to brainstorm new areas of research and collaboration – with a singular focus on the enrichment of human lives in Africa and around the globe. The pioneering framework of this conference is intended to create cross-functional solutions in the areas of Health care, Education, Banking & Finance, Networking solutions, Digital marketing and Science & Technology. The backdrop of this pro-development summit is the extremely large and untapped human resource capital of Africa – not to mention that it is the fastest expanding marketplaces in the world. The participating experts are fully aware of the annual growth rate (more than 3 %) of more than 600 million African people. One of the major goals of this summit is to create practical and immediate channels of collaboration between the African growth engines (entrepreneurs, business owners, students, NGOs, women groups) and the global business incubators. Apart from creating unprecedented multi-discipline collaboration opportunities for the African business entities, Afri-Tech Johannesburg 2012 will also act as a catalyst for pro-development policies and culture in the region. Afri-Tech Johannesburg summit offers a great opportunity for investors, sponsors and global business giants because of its extremely solution-oriented approach towards brainstorming sessions. Like the Nairobi summit, the Johannesburg summit will also act as a catalyst for innovation, research and entrepreneurial mindset. You can get a detailed view of the summit at its official site - www.afri-tech.com / or contact Brian Manyau at bmanyau@afri-tech.com for speaking / sponsor opportunities. follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Copyright © 2011 Afri-Tech Group, All rights reserved. sample Our mailing address is: Afri-Tech Group Block A, Wedgefield Office Park, 17 Muswell Road South Wedgefield, Bryanston, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2012 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences
As part of Terms of Use requiring opt-in emails, we suspended the user and will not be letting them back in.
Good, and I’m not surprised. 🙂 MailChimp is normally quite responsive to spam reports. The only surprise was seeing a Mailchimp representative responding here, and that’s a good surprise.
I don’t know if MailChimp has the time, personnel or budget to re-educate spammers who aren’t two-time (or many-time) loosers, as this one appears to have been. I hope you do, however, because firing a spamming customer isn’t always the best way to deal with that customer, at least from an anti-spam point of view. Despite all of the information on the internet about the need for opt-in when sending bulk email, and the warnings about purchased lists, plenty of small bulk emailers don’t get the message because it didn’t occur to them that there might be a message that they needed to get. :/ A bit of education can put that type of spammer on the right path, saving the ESP a customer and the rest of us the customer’s spam for the long run. Win/win, at least as I see it.