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Affiliates and associates spamming

Everyday I am recieving more then 1000 emails selling me this and that and stuffing in their affilaite ID's. Now how would I explain those foolish people that this is not the way to do the business. Don't know why they are spamming the hell out of my inbox. One would say take this pill and become a man. As if I am not a man anymore. One would say are you frustrated of being a man? then change it.

Is there anyway I can complain this sick people to the company for which they are sending me this emails. I am getting frustrated because just 3 days ago one client filed a case against me in paypal as I was not able to deliver him the goods. His email was there between the 1000 spam emails and I might have missed it out.


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RE: Affiliates and associates spamming

Most of the time it is a lot of work to uncover the company infomation and for the drug sites I don't think most of them care too much - they just make too much money from their affiliates. For other companies like ClickBank, you can report it and they will close the affiliate's account, because I have done this. Just use a "abuse@" email address and it should be received.

The other options are to get some kind of anti-spam software or email provider, or just change your email address. Those of us that are webmasters can create many email forwards and give them out to people and companies, or post them on different web sites. When you start getting spam from them, you have an idea why and can delete it and stop the spam.

I use Spam Assassin which comes with my reseller accounts and it helps by filtering the spam for me, but I still have to look at the subjects of about 800 spams a day. If you sort them by subject, it goes pertty fast since so many are the same thing...

Spam Arrest is one of may solutions that makes people answer a question before the mail goes to you. Since most spammers will never answer, that seems very effective.


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RE: Affiliates and associates spamming

Legitimate companies will allow you to opt out of a newsletter or something that spams your inbox.

This does not work for the weird pharmaceutical and adult spam that seems to inhabit most of our inboxes. I, personally, have had the same email addresses for many years posted on public domains and I find that the amount of spam varies depending on the time of year and the popularity of the site of the latest postings of my address.

I suggest what nielsencl said. If you are going to places with high volume and traffic, you might want to use an alternate address and manage your messages like that. It might help out in the long run, especially later down the line when you get on Google PageRank 6 sites and your address is exposed to a wide audience.

06-03-2007 09:48 AM
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RE: Affiliates and associates spamming

Right. This medical and adult spam are killing me.

Some nice suggestions here. I will implement them right now as I cannot tolerate any more spam now.

Thanks for your inputs on it.


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RE: Affiliates and associates spamming

i have created a seprate mail ids for sites where i think i may get spam and a separate one for my freelance customers!!

thats the best way i thought!!


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RE: Affiliates and associates spamming

I used spamguard in my cpanel and it is working nicely now more then 90% of spammers are just bumped against a wall and sent back.

Thanks for all the suggestions Atleast now I am seeing my sales emails clearly.


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