re: anti spam filter :: spam blocker
Does anyone know of a good anti spam filter & spam blocker?
Have you heard the lastest on SpamArrest.com? They turned
out not to be the anti spam filter :: spam blocker system
I thought they were.
At first...
Their "service" did such a wonderful job on my inbox.
SpamArrest.com had got me a spam-free inbox, which was
great...for me. That's what I expected from an anti spam
filter & spam blocker.
Then I did some investigating on SpamArrest and found...
When you are a SpamArrest customers, they download all of
the email from your real inbox. 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. The net result in my case,
was that out of the 8,000+ emails a day that I receive,
only the 100 or so that are from people that I like
actually get into my inbox.
A beautiful anti spam filter & spam blocker, right?
Well the ugly part is that SpamArrest is able to build,
based on which individuals went through that verification
process, a list of thousands of email addresses that are
valid, read by a person, and more importantly, read by a
person that would click on a link in the email. Unknown
to me, and most SpamArrest customers, is that while
SpamArrest is protecting me from spam, they are secretly
harvesting the email addresses of everyone that has
validated themselves to be allowed to email me.
Imagine: an anti spam filter & spam blocker spamming that
list!
On one hand, they protect me with their anti spam filter &
spam blocker system, and on the other hand, they're
spamming all of the people that I "white listed" and trust.
Screwing me, and annoying my contacts in the process. While
they've not yet admitted to selling this list off, I can
only imagine that's going to be their next step.
A very shady 'anti spam filter & spam blocker'indeed!
Their owner has made some public statements, however, which
are quite alarming: "Our privacy policy states that we are
allowed to contact 'senders', that is, the people who send
our customers e-mail....Every person who got this e-mail
from us has either sent an e-mail to one of our customers,
or been added to one of our customer's white list
explicitly."
I have stopped using spamarrest as a anti spam filter &
spam blocker and am looking at alternative solutions to my
uncontrollable inbox.
Maybe you know of a good anti spam filter & spam blocker?
I am looking at Spam Bully.
I recommend that anyone that's using spamarrest.com's
'anti spam filter & spam blocker' service to stop doing so
immediately, and look for another way out.
Sincerely,
Michael
http://www.1st-wealth.com