On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karsten Br�ckelmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 19:41 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> > "Hello, I’m Brenda Hudson, Dell Director of Emerging Business.
> >
> > Soon, we’ll be sending our Dell Customer Experience Survey. Your
> > opinion is valuable to us and your feedback will help directly
> > influence the areas where Dell can drive business improvements with
> > our solutions, operations and people.
> >
> > You have requested to not receive Dell marketing emails, which will
> > make you ineligible to be included in our upcoming survey."
>
> Not that this would actually be SA related, but...
>
> Did the message genuinely come from Dell? The named $director entity? Or
> was it an ESP on behalf of Dell?
>
> Since this was, as you claimed, after an opt-out -- what did the
> recipient opt-out of? Depending on the countries involved, there might
> be some opportunity by reporting to the feds. Or maybe even just cancel
> that ESP, by telling Dell what they do "on their behalf". If they do...
FWIW, I've received spam purportedly from "Dell Small Business"
<d...@smb.dell.com> which was sent by an ESP (BFI). I assume
that BFI was working at Dell's request, it looked like a valid Dell
ad (prices, SKUs, warranty disclamers, etc).
They claimed that I had subscribed to their list but as they sent it
to my NIC handle I -know- that I didn't subscribe, so I assume
that it was scraped or they bought a list.
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