I work for a nonprofit organization where I handle the “general information” email account—basically, I get inquiries from people who are either too lazy to read the website or don’t know which department they should contact.
The other day, I got the following email: "A user is researching: (our email address here). ALERT! - A member is attempting to share Opinions and Experiences regarding you in our online community.
The purpose of this email is to inform you that a posting has been made regarding you at our website. This is email is not commercial in nature.
If this email message was delivered to your spam or bulk email folder please notify your ISP or spam filtering company regarding this mistake on their part.
You may view the posting here: (URL here)"
So I went to the URL, and it looks like there have been 6 “Experience Requests” regarding our email account; 3 requests from people who say they are looking for information and 3 from people who say they have information.
The thing is, I can’t seem to get any information on what these requests/statements might be unless I create an account. There is one level of membership that is free, but that level doesn’t give you access to any further information.
Does anyone know how or whether I can find out more information about these requests without shelling out money? It seems that it would be beneficial for a company/organization to find out what people are saying about them, but of course the site basically wants you to pay for that privilege.
i used to get those all the time. i panicked at first, but it’s just some abstract new-fangled way of generating business, because most of us have got a handle on what is spam and what is not.
Sounds a bit like a spam text message I kept receiving on my mobile phone - “you have a secret admirer, visit [somewhere].com for details” - first few times, I ignored it completely, but then I thought maybe it was someone playing a prank, so I tried to follow it up - the website was very transparently NOT in possession of any information about me or my supposed secret admirer - as far as I can tell, the purpose of the whole thing was to get me to enter my email and home address (presumably for addition to some list to be sold to spammers and junk mailers).
I had one of those a while back. Out of curiosity, I decided to play along and sign up with a few dozen different permutations of the contact info given from a whois lookup of their website. Never did get anything useful out of them.
