Buying a Fur Lined Bathtub?

SPAM! Most of the time we don’t really fall for it, but sometimes an email looks interesting enough to open and read.  This morning I received this email that said it could deliver 5 phone system quotes to me in CORVALLIS  - OR, which is where our main office is located. So, my curiosity peaks and I check it out. (See the Note)

It’s probably not an email that interests you, unless you are looking for a new phone system. What you may not know is the same organization that collects your request for a phone system quote in “CORVALLIS - OR” will call me later this month and offer to sell me a list of businesses that want phone systems in “CORVALLIS - OR”

The same thing happens for other products. An email arrives that says they have a great price on something you have been looking to buy, it gets your attention and you think “Sure, I’d like to get 5 quotes for fur lining my bathtub” and you respond with the affirmative to the sender.  Who then calls a local bathtub fur liner and offers to sell your contact info along with “hundreds more.”  It’s a reasonably legitimate business model in that the spammer has offered you something, “5 quotes” and us something, “contact requested a quote,” but in reality, they have been deceitful on both ends.  They are building a list of contacts but can't really quote you a new phone system and then they are selling that list of contacts to companies under false pretense.  

As a note: 10D Tech does not buy these lists.

We feel your pain

Unsolicited emails, also called Spam, works because of the high volume the spammers send results in a tiny amount of success There are different kinds of spam, but in every case, sending spam is so cheap that it doesn’t take much for a spammer to pronounce that a spam campaign a big success.

For example, say a spammer sends 15 million emails pushing a knock-off of the latest wonder gizmo. If only a tiny percent, perhaps even just one person out of fifteen million, purchases the gizmo through him, the spammer has made a profit. It doesn’t matter if it’s fake purses, body-part enhancement aids, knock-off watches or discounted computer software. If even the tiniest percentage of spam emails produce a sale, then that spam was successful, they will continue.

Tired of Spam? Tired of sifting through a hundred emails a day that has nothing to do with your work? Call us and we can help 10D Tech 541.243.4103