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BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?

20 Oct 17 - 02:20 AM (#3883411)
Subject: BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?
From: punkfolkrocker

Amused to just find Outlook Email alerting a new Junk Email.....
Which when I looked was the latest news email from MSN...!!!???


20 Oct 17 - 05:49 AM (#3883444)
Subject: RE: BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?
From: Nigel Parsons

I spent 6 months working for a UK ISP.
The numbers of notifications that we sent out that went straight into Spam was annoying.

Something to do with the business name "Virgin"


20 Oct 17 - 06:13 AM (#3883462)
Subject: RE: BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?
From: Joe Offer

By the way, I got an email today that looked like an ordinary Facebook notification, telling me that a friend commented on a photo I posted.
When I clicked to see what photo he was talking about, I was taken to a Facebook login page that had his name filled in and an open password box.
Guess I'd better change my Facebook password.
-Joe-


20 Oct 17 - 08:35 AM (#3883492)
Subject: RE: BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?
From: Donuel

I get rid of MSN news for my opening page but every time MS updates, they put it back


20 Oct 17 - 11:32 AM (#3883552)
Subject: RE: BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?
From: Jos

I quite often get emails telling me I have unread facebook messages that will be deleted if I don't read them very soon. As I haven't got a facebook account, they are fooling nobody.


21 Oct 17 - 08:27 AM (#3883687)
Subject: RE: BS: Microsoft accepts they send spam ?
From: Mr Red

Fakebook can't tell me because I deleted that e-mail address.

Maybe the spammers know this, but how could I tell?

FWIW Fakebook is so unimportant and so easy to open another account, who cares if I loose it. Nobody gets my mobile number. Either.
Mobile & Fakebook are for keeping essential people in touch, not as a data portal for rich kids.