On 03 Jul 2004 14:19:56 GMT, Teacherjh wrote:

I sign up at (say) BestBuy to get their monthly specials via Email. Three
weeks later (and about a hundred or two spams later) I get an Email from
announcing special sales (and having links with
redirect parts) at BestBuy and having an unsubscribe link that goes to
.

Is it really from Best Buy?

check the source (sic!) from the mail. Even better: don't display mails in
HTML and chose plain-text over HTML whenver possible.

what you are talking about is "phishing"

Probably not. But maybe. Retailers are not very bright either.

most of the users are too stupid to go online. you can see the result in
your inbox/spamfilter/etc.

#m
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