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  From: Patrick Ferguson <pjf2103@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:46:56 -0500

A new example of Amex's old strategy - let the consumer know how much info you have about them

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 *Miller hunts down people who use throwaway emails on their contests*
Regina sez, "I filled out a web form for a contest from Miller using a
throwaway junk email address and then, months after I dumped the throwaway
account, I got this to my main account! Not sure I like the idea of
companies tracking me down like this."

Thank you for being a loyal consumer of Miller Brewing Company. As one of
our VIP consumers, you have likely received email communications from us in
the past. Recently, however, we have not been able to deliver email message=
s
to the address you originally supplied. We have performed an electronic
change of address to update our records so that we can continue to send you
special offers, promotions, and announcements via email.

Link <http://craphound.com/images/millersneakemail.jpg>;

Update: Brian McWilliams, author of the great book Spam
Kings<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007329/downandoutint-20/>;,
has done more investigation<http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/i=
nside_the_creepy_miller_brewi.html>into
this pernicious spamming technique, "Turns out this spooky little spam
was the work of Equifax, the big credit reporting agency that shut down its
Boca Raton-based spam operation, Naviant, in 2003, due to the impending
passage of CAN-SPAM."


http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/18/miller_hunts_down_pe.html

-Patrick Ferguson

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<span class=3D"rss:item"><a name=3D"025579">
<b>Miller hunts down people who use throwaway emails on their contests</b>
<br>
Regina sez, "I filled out a web form for a contest from Miller using a
throwaway junk email address and then, months after I dumped the
throwaway account, I got this to my main account! Not sure I like the
idea of companies tracking me down like this."
</a><blockquote>


<a name=3D"025579">Thank you for being a loyal consumer of Miller Brewing
Company. As one of our VIP consumers, you have likely received email
communications from us in the past. Recently, however, we have not been
able to deliver email messages to the address you originally supplied.
We have performed an electronic change of address to update our records
so that we can continue to send you special offers, promotions, and
announcements via email.
</a></blockquote>

<a href=3D"http://craphound.com/images/millersneakemail.jpg">Link</a>
<p>
<font color=3D"red">Update:</font>  Brian McWilliams, author of the great b=
ook <a href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007329/downandout=
int-20/">Spam Kings</a>, has done more <a href=3D"http://spamkings.oreilly.=
com/archives/2006/02/inside_the_creepy_miller_brewi.html">
investigation</a>
into this pernicious spamming technique, "Turns out this spooky little
spam was the work of Equifax, the big credit reporting agency that shut
down its Boca Raton-based spam operation, Naviant, in 2003, due to the
impending passage of CAN-SPAM."<br>
</p>
<p><br>
<a href=3D"http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/18/miller_hunts_down_pe.html">=
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/18/miller_hunts_down_pe.html<;/a><br>
</p>
<br>
<p>-Patrick Ferguson<br>
</p>
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