Thephuketnews.. Be Aware..

[LivinLOS]

The new Phuket media company Phuket Newspaper | Phuket ? Phuket news, events, jobs, classifieds which has an email alerts system, much like the gazette and PhuketWan.

They also have a privacy policy where they make it clear that

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Authorized employees within the company and in the course of carrying out their normal work obligations only use any information collected from individual customers.

We constantly review our systems and data to ensure the best possible service to our customers. Client records are regarded as confidential and therefore will not be divulged to any third party unless authorised by you or if legally required to do so to the appropriate authorities.

We will not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party or use your e-mail address for unsolicited mail. Any emails sent by this Company will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services and products.

Yet if you sign up with a one time use email you start to get spammed. Email coming from 'events thailand' caught my eye and a scan of the headers shows.

Delivered-To: [email protected]

Received: by 10.68.55.234 with SMTP id v10cs22261pbp;

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT)

Received: by 10.143.87.6 with SMTP id p6mr7275776wfl.48.1301979974463;

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT)

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

Received: from dpmailmta06.doteasy.com (dpmailmta06-17.doteasy.com [65.61.218.117])

by mx.google.com with ESMTP id p7si16988491wfl.31.2011.04.04.22.06.13;

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:06:13 -0700 (PDT)

Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 65.61.218.117 as permitted sender) client-ip=65.61.218.117;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email protected] does not designate 65.61.218.117 as permitted sender) [email protected]

Received: from dpmail06.doteasy.com ([192.168.101.6])

by dpmailrp04.doteasy.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p3556BHa028674

for <[email protected]>; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:06:12 -0700

Received: from ns1.thephuketnews.com [119.59.99.21] by dpmail06.doteasy.com with SMTP;

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:05:42 -0700

Received: from apache by ns1.thephuketnews.com with local (Exim 4.73)

(envelope-from <[email protected]>)

id 1Q6yNb-0000rX-UB; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:00:39 +0700

To: [email protected]

Subject: Newsletter April 2011 - Events Thailand

X-PHP-Script: www.thephuketnews.net/schedule/newsletter.php for 69.89.31.78

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

From: [email protected]

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:00:39 +0700

X-Bayes-Prob: 0.5 (Score 0, tokens from: )

X-Spam-Score: 2.80 (**) [Hold at 5.00] HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG,MIME_HTML_ONLY, PORN_RP_SEXY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_GREY

No question.. The SPAM comes from thephuketnews servers. Not only that, the link to unsubscribe from events thailand mailings lands on a miss configured phuketnews page and doesnt work, you cant unsubscribe.

A bunch of strong emails to them demanding they explain themselves, and if they pass email out to Events Thailand who else they will pass it to, gone unanswered. Its clearly amateur hour and run by a media company with no idea what proper online etiquette or privacy standards are. Morons.

I know its 'only' more spam, but when media companies pull this kind of stuff they need to learn that its not acceptable, especially in small community marketing. Prove yourself to be a liar once, and all trust is gone. I hope any advertisers get a clear picture of the negative effect that spam has also.

So just a heads up, if your signing up for the phuket news email alerts, use a one time email you can shut down or dispose of, who knows who they sell it to next.

[katasyd]

These are the guys who get your info.

http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/savepdf.php?ref=2011330122936&id=8767

[LivinginKata]

I've never signed up for anything yet I received emails from 'events thailand' on all 3 of my various email accounts. I have no idea how they got these email addresses. And when I try to unsubscribe all I get is a message saying that my email address is not recognised. At least the Phuket News spam stopped when I unsubscribed. Not that I even signed up with them.

[katasyd]

They are both registered at the same address in Kathu.

Same phone numbers etc.

It seems this paper will become a event and real estate rag with no real stories.

99/7 Moo 1 T. Kathu

A. Kathu, Phuket 83120

Phone # 076 612 550-2 Fax # 076 612 553

[ScubaBuddha]

I have been getting several misconfigured and blank emails from The Phuket News as well. What a disaster these guys are.

Edited April 6, 2011 by ScubaBuddha

[grumpyoldman]

I have been getting several misconfigured and blank emails from The Phuket News as well. What a disaster these guys are.

Don't know how they got my mobile#, but they started spamming my message box there about a week before they published.

Because of that I will never buy or look at their paper.

[LivinLOS]

The email servers in the headers, and the return email etc all clearly ties Events Thailand to PhuketNews

[barka]

Phuket news if you are reading this, pay some decent money, and get some pros working for you,otherwise you wont survive here in PHUKET.I tried to place an ad in your clasifieds,i gave up no one new how to deal with my advertisement...Get organised soon or else..

[MisterMan]

I've never signed up for anything yet I received emails from 'events thailand' on all 3 of my various email accounts. I have no idea how they got these email addresses. And when I try to unsubscribe all I get is a message saying that my email address is not recognised. At least the Phuket News spam stopped when I unsubscribed. Not that I even signed up with them.

Ditto. All 3 of my accounts. Typos and bad grammar one time are enough.

[notbritish]

Or they can actually start proof reading their articles first..

i have seen words written with the wrong letters even on the first page. IE: Epple to say Apple.. there's almost one every page.

[Milanman]

Ditto. All 3 of my accounts. Typos and bad grammar one time are enough.

Misterman, you should work on your own grammar.

[katabeachbum]

Seems like they are searching for as many Phuket email accounts as possible. One of the tools is free or inexpensive advertising. Spammers like this do not get my business. No ads, no paper purchased by me.

English language newspapermerket in Phuket is actually a very small market, and my business goes to a long established paper over the newcommer spammers. Phuket News has displayed their qualities in short time

[LivinLOS]

The server for both sites is hosted by metrabyte.co.th which has a clear anti spam policy in its ToS.

Complaints to [email protected] may (depending on the attitudes at metrabyte) remove their ability to spam.

[keestha]

In my junkmail folder, they are competing with penis enlargement, fake hotel bookings and financial windfalls. Well, they are certainly reading this, and I hope it will make them rethink their marketing policy.

[Kernow86]

Can anyone tell me what exactly happens when you hit 'spam' on your email page?

I keep getting a phone bill from the UK for some random lady!

[LivinginKata]

I've never signed up for anything yet I received emails from 'events thailand' on all 3 of my various email accounts. I have no idea how they got these email addresses. And when I try to unsubscribe all I get is a message saying that my email address is not recognised. At least the Phuket News spam stopped when I unsubscribed. Not that I even signed up with them.

Spoke too soon. Phuketnews back to sending emails to all my email accounts. Oh well, placed that sender on my block list.