In April, I stayed at the Hotel Carelton in San Francisco. Today, I received an email sent on their behalf with some interesting headers:
From: Joie de Vivre <VIP@crm.SafeCRM.com> (1)
Subject: 20% Off Our Best Available Rates For A Limited Time!!!
Date: July 26, 2012 12:12:01 PM PDT
To: Neil Schwartzman <redacted@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Joie de Vivre <createjoy@jdvhotels.com>
N.B.: Neither the From: nor the reply-to are ostensibly related to Hotel Carleton.
Now, I never signed up to be on their mailing loist, but I figured I'd give them a break and unsubscribe, so I clicked this link (again, seemingly unrelated to the hotel)
http://www.data2gold.com/cc3/RmvRPC.wow?5Q09376I525C1U43414E403I3B1W514S4Q6F5H1F596G600G4K515Y674235MUNGED
Now here's the thing that really got my goat, the landing page on the unsubscribe:
Thank You!
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We have removed munged@gmail.com from our list. We do not provide your information to any other company ever and we will not contact you again at this email address. Thank you for helping us maintain a true opt-in list. |
A true opt-in list, just for the record, would be one that I signed up to, not one that I was forcibly subscribed to, pending my unsubscribe.You're welcome.
(1) SafeCRM.com
Digital Alchemy
5750 Stratum Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76137
United States
(2) data2gold.com
Registrant:
Digital Alchemy, LLC
5750 Stratum Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76137
United States
A little poking around sees these domains on the digital alchemy nameservers
da2go.com
da2go.net
data2gold.com
data2gold.net
data2gold.us
dataintogold.com
datatogold.com
digitalalchemyusa.com
disneytriptips.com
gone2fun.com
gone2sun.com
guestfocus.com
mercutiomdef.com
orlandotriptips.com
orlandotripwiz.com
orlandotripwizard.com
safecrm.com
safecrm.org
turndata2gold.com
turndatatogold.com
turningdata2gold.com
turningdataintogold.com
turningdatatogold.com
