[funsec] Spam Kings: Inside the Creepy Miller Brewing Spam Probe

[Fergie]

Check this out.

Via Spam Kings.

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Many people are creeped out by a report that Miller Brewing is somehow hunting down former "customers" and opting them into spam campaigns.

Turns out this spooky little spam was the work of Equifax, the big credit reporting agency that shut down its Boca Raton-based spam operation, Naviant, in 2003, due to the impending passage of CAN-SPAM.

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More here:
http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/inside_the_creepy_miller_brewi.html

- ferg


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