SpamArrest Accussed of Spamming Its Customers' Lists
A well-known anti-spam service called, "SpamArrest.com" is apparently spamming its users. SpamArrest works by downloading all of the email from your email box. Then, they check it against their database, and make available to you the messages from individuals that you have approved. For the remaining email messages SpamArrest sends an email message to them asking them to verify themselves. If they do (by clicking a link in the email message and entering a password), their email is also made available to you. Unfortunately SpamArrest is able to build, based on which individuals went through that verification process a list of thousands of email addresses that are valid and more importantly read by a person that would click on a link in the email. Unbeknownst to its customers is that while SpamArrest is protecting them from spam, they're apparently secretly harvesting the email addresses of everyone that has validated themselves to be allowed to email their customers. Their privacy policy states that they are allowed to contact "senders", that is, the people who send their customers e-mail. If this isn't spam, I don't know what is! If you're a SpamArrest customer I suggest you re-read their Privacy Policy statement. [Full story: Scumbag of the Week - JimWorld Gazette]
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