Sports spam driving me nuts!

[dominique]

Usually I just delete spam and am done with it.

But I am so inundated with sports spam, it's driving me nuts.

I don't promote sports, I don't bet on sports, I don't know diddly about sports.

How did I get on all these lists? Most of this is AFFILIATE spam.

How do affiliates think of sending me this stuff? Must be buying mail lists, bad ones since I have absolutely nothing to do with sports.

My mail lets me block the sender and the domain. Doesn't help.

I am starting to want to strangle someone - or go on an all-out campaign to get this stopped!

 

[gabriel_LCP]

Sorry to hear that! It is a pain!

I'm getting lately a bunch of 'back to school" spam emails, at least twice per day! I'm pretty sick of it already

 

[Aussie-Dave]

I'm getting lately a bunch of 'back to school" spam emails, at least twice per day! I'm pretty sick of it already

If two (2) spams a day are getting you down...how upset would you be receiving up to 150 spams a day from affiliate managers from site contact forms that specifically states, it's not to be used to contact the site owner for commercial purposes - player and site visitor use only!

 

[dominique]

Sorry to hear that! It is a pain!

I'm getting lately a bunch of 'back to school" spam emails, at least twice per day! I'm pretty sick of it already

I am talking like 50 a day, and several send them two or three times a day. For weeks now. It's driving me bonkers.

And these are fellow affs - buying stupid mailing lists that apparently have people like me on them who never have and never will have anything at all to do with sports. Heck, I don't even know what much of the lingo means.

Looks like the only way to stop this is to start reporting them. In ten years in this biz I have never had to resort to reporting anyone.

 

[lots0]

Today I counted the affiliate SPAM I received, 136.
This just aff SPAM and it does seem a little less than normal today.

I get it all, Sports (don't do sports), BINGO, Casino and Poker.

And I have really good bot protection on my contact form, so most all these spams are hand generated...

I really hate the fact that we seem to be going backward in the battle on SPAM.

 

[dominique]

I am not counting or complaining about bingo, poker and casino, since I can see how I could end up on such lists.

But sports - totally off the cuff.

 

[Aussie-Dave]

Today I counted the affiliate SPAM I received, 136.
This just aff SPAM and it does seem a little less than normal today.

I get it all, Sports (don't do sports), BINGO, Casino and Poker.

And I have really good bot protection on my contact form, so most all these spams are hand generated...

I really hate the fact that we seem to be going backward in the battle on SPAM.

I wont even tell you how many I'm hit with on a daily basis. I don't count out the fact that my e-mails and others are being shared. In some cases my e-email address are either only used at casinos, affiliate programs or to contact other affiliates.

I will add however that I'm also a Neteller affiliate, who last month made a monumental screw up and sent a mailer out to their affiliates by adding everyone's email address to the To line. And not as it should be by "undisclosed recipient"...If I didn't get sent out to 1000 emails I'll go he. I'd count them but there are just too many.

How many of these are spammer?

Well I'm certainly coping a shalacking this month and I'm paying for Neteller's mistake now!

As a Neteller VIP I contacted them voicing my disaproval. Promised a Dept., head would contact me with 24 hours - least to say I'm still waiting.

Lots0 is right though, this spam is turning into an epidemic. Worse, one only has to take a cruise around some of the black-hat forums to see an active member base of casino affiliates trying to purchase mailing lists. One member I spotted was a GPWA member

Thing is though the market is growing smaller and smaller and the casinos, sportsbooks, pokerrooms are getting greedy. Most don't give a rats where there next sign-up comes from as long as it's put another buck in their pocket.

As I've said before the online gaming industry at times is its own worst enemy.