I just got the SPAM email below offering sell me Omega 4D MultiLoaders
(whatever those are).
Clearly they got my email from scrapping the web or somewhere because
they send to marc-at-tradeshow@nozell.com (from one of my blog
entries), marc-blog-feedback@nozell.com (used only here on my blog)
and marc-i-saw-your-weblog@nozell.com (same thing)
What also pisses me off is they included this graphic so I had to
download 130k of their junk — three times!
An image sent via spam by sideloaders.com (26 Mar 2004)
REMEMBER: Don’t do business with companies that use Unsolicited
Commerical Email (UCE) to market. It is an unethical marketing
technique. Thanks!
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Start of Junk email from shrewd@sideloaders.com
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From shrewd@sideloaders.com Thu Mar 25 23:51:59 2004
Return-path: <shrewd@sideloaders.com>
Envelope-to: marc@localhost
Received: from sideloaders.com ([68.20.209.65]) by aspworld.com with MailEn
able ESMTP; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:58:06 -0500
From: "shrewd@sideloaders.com" <shrewd@sideloaders.com>
To: "Marc-at-tradeshow" <marc-at-tradeshow@nozell.com>
Subject: Invitation: MultiLoader debuts at Cleveland show
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:55:54 -0600
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Reply-To: "shrewd@sideloaders.com" <shrewd@sideloaders.com>
Organization: BHS
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service
Message-ID: <A3F2C67582AE41CCBF574EFD327C1.MAI@aspworld.com>
Invitation: MultiLoader debuts at Cleveland show
The first four-way truck with IC propulsion manufactured in North
America by Omega Lift Manufacturing will make its debut during the NA
2004 Material Handling Show in Cleveland, Ohio from March 29 to April
1, 2004
The show is held at the International Exhibition Center (I-X Service
Center) on 6200 Riverside Drive. Please stop by at booth number 1241,
where you and your customers can have a first look at the all wheel
drive, all wheel steer MultiLoader.
The Omega 4D MultiLoader series comes in capacities of 8,000, 10,000
and 12,000 pounds with a Perkins diesel, or GM LPG engine. All mast
types are available and load bed sizes from 30 to 60 inches are
offered. Super Elastic tires are standard.
Please, stop by and see us.
Baumann Handling Systems, Inc.
Manfred Kaufmann
Baumann Handling Systems, 1208 Badger Street, Yorkville, IL 60560: 800-927-
0385, www.sideloaders.com
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l with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
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End of Junk email from shrewd@sideloaders.com
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Tags: spam
To Whom It May Concern,
Your website “Nozell” did catch us by surprise. We refrain from spam advertizing through the internet. If you feel somebody related to our company has intentionally spammed you in our name, please give us notice. Unless you can prove any spam activity of ours, we would like you to eliminate this website immediately, which is detrimental to our company image and policies.
Meanwhile, we brought this matter to the attention of our legal advisors.
Best Regards,
Manfred Kaufmann
President
Baumann Handling Systems, Inc.
Manfred,
In my original post the entire email message including the full headers that shows exactly the text of the message I received over two years ago.
-marc
Manfred,
Attached are the three spam messages I received from sideloaders.com in March 2004 with a subject of:
"Invitation: MultiLoader debuts at Cleveland show"as mentioned on my blog.
You may want to check into who at your company was responsible for public relations/marketing of the ‘NA 2004 Material Handling Show’ in Cleveland. Perhaps they violated your policies and procedures and contracted with a spamming firm.
As you can see from the email headers of the attached messages, the spam message was received from sideloaders.com by aspworld.com [line 1] which then was delivered to the hosting company for my nozell.com domain.
One interesting bit that may help with your internal search is the sending PC set had the Organization line set to be “BHS” [line 2] which likely stands for Baumann Handling Systems.
See below:
[1]--> Received: from sideloaders.com ([68.20.209.65]) by aspworld.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Thu, 25 Mar \2004 20:58:06 -0500 From: "shrewd@sideloaders.com"
To: "Marc-at-tradeshow"
Subject: Invitation: MultiLoader debuts at Cleveland show
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:55:54 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Reply-To: "shrewd@sideloaders.com"
[2]--> Organization: BHS
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service
A Google search for shrewd@sideloaders.com shows that your http://www.sideloaders.com site formerly provided that email address as the contact, but it was changed to info@sideloaders.com sometime after May 06, 2006 based on the information in the google cache.
http://www.google.com/search?q=shrewd%40sideloaders.com
You can still see the reference to the shrewd address by looking in the Google Cache:
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:gFVGR0epFEgJ:www.sideloaders.com/+shrewd%40sideloaders.com&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2
That email address is also referenced on http://www.metalcenternews.com/MetalDistribution/Manufacturers/AlphaEqA-C.htm
as the contact for your company.