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The Face of Spam. Meet the Spam Queen Laura Betterly of Data Resource Consulting
WSJ ^
| Nov 13, 2002
| MYLENE MANGALINDAN
Posted on 11/22/2002 1:34:52 PM PST by BJungNan
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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"It's that simple," Ms. Betterly said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She had just dispatched e-mail messages to 500,000 strangers.
If you call her she will tell you she only sends email to people who have opted in. But if this from a Wall Street Journal article about her operation is true, then she is responsible for many unsolicited emails from other spammers whose emails to you were generated from lists she has sold.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: junkemail; spam
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posted on
11/22/2002 1:34:52 PM PST
by
BJungNan
To: BJungNan
She looks exactly like what I imagined the Spam Queen would look like.
2
posted on
11/22/2002 1:39:47 PM PST
by
dead
To: dead
She looks like a Wellstone mourner.
3
posted on
11/22/2002 1:41:11 PM PST
by
Naspino
To: BJungNan
"What we do for a living is not a bad thing. We're not horrible," she says. We only use your hard drive space and suck up your bandwidth without your permission. We also require your ISP to use extra hardware to make way for all of the spam. We advertise by converting your property. We're thieves, basically, but we're not horrible. /sarcasm
What a loony. She must be a democrat most likely.
4
posted on
11/22/2002 1:41:16 PM PST
by
JoeMomma
To: BJungNan
The Spam Madam.
5
posted on
11/22/2002 1:41:59 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: dead
She looks exactly like what I imagined the Spam Queen would look like. In my opinion, as ugly as the thousands of unsolicited emails she had crammed into my mailbox.
6
posted on
11/22/2002 1:42:04 PM PST
by
BJungNan
To: BJungNan; Naspino
Seriously, she resembles Norman Fell in drag.
7
posted on
11/22/2002 1:43:47 PM PST
by
dead
To: BJungNan
What I want to know is ,
WHATS HER EMAIL ADDRESS?????
8
posted on
11/22/2002 1:45:36 PM PST
by
Kozak
To: Kozak
LOL!
9
posted on
11/22/2002 1:47:01 PM PST
by
paulklenk
To: BJungNan
Why on earth does that individual want to make my genitalia larger?
To: BJungNan; Hap; Bacon Man
She's not made of Spam! New Spam is pink. It only goes gray after you leave it out a couple days.
For a full discussion of the aforementioned, and other related chemical reactions, put down the soda and
click here.
11
posted on
11/22/2002 1:49:07 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: Billthedrill
12
posted on
11/22/2002 1:49:43 PM PST
by
dead
To: Xenalyte
She looks as thought she got hit by the Spam truck.
13
posted on
11/22/2002 2:01:30 PM PST
by
sinclair
To: BJungNan
>>While some unscrupulous spammers ignore people who ask to be removed from a list, Ms. Betterly says she complies if anyone e-mails back an "unsubscribe" command, sends "opt out" instructions or otherwise asks not to receive future messages.<<
No kidding. If you click on the "remove me" link, MOST spammers will be overjoyed, as they just discovered a "live" email address and will sell your email address for a higher price. I have been advised by my ISP not to click on the "unsubscribe" link for this very purpose, and it has resulted in less and less spam.
Hmm. . .I also handle tele-marketers in a rather unique way: When one calls and immediately asks, "Is this Mr. XXX?" I come back with, "May I ask who's calling?" and I do not identify myself. (Proper phone manners require the caller to identify themselves first, as in "This is So-and-So, May I speak with So-and-So?")
The tele-marketer then goes into their "This is business XXX, and we. . ."
At this point I interrupt and say, "I'm sorry, I am an estate attorney taking calls for Mr. XXX, he died a few weeks ago. Do you have a claim against the estate?"
At this time the tele-marketer pauses and replies, no, they do not have a claim against the estate. I then say, "Thank you, please remove his name form your list."
This ensures my name is actually removed from the list and not re-sold.
Telemarketing calls have fallen off dramatically within a few months after I started doing this. Before then I would ask to be removed and always suspected they did no such thing. Now I am reasonably certain I am removed.
(I've only had ONE telemarketer switch gears upon hearing the news of my "death," and that telemarketer then tried to sell me--the estate attorney--the product. Crass.)
To: Xenalyte
Check out this site for more on the Spam queen. Apparantly she is not well liked!
Odds&Ends
or this one (WARNING, not for the timid)
AngryWhiteGirl.com
You have to scroll down just a bit on the page.
15
posted on
11/22/2002 2:06:01 PM PST
by
BJungNan
To: BJungNan
We should have to 'opt in' to get this stuff..
not 'opt out'.
16
posted on
11/22/2002 2:08:14 PM PST
by
Route66
To: Kozak
What I want to know is,WHAT'S HER EMAIL ADDRESS?????
I want to FReep her big time!
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: BJungNan
To hell with her phone number. I want her e-mail address!
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posted on
11/22/2002 2:15:14 PM PST
by
PsyOp
To: PsyOp
I 'spose we could call her and ask her for it/them...
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