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Offline Deanpaul

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Antispam registry?
« on: February 9, 2004, 01:45 AM »
Is this group the real deal? I only counted two whole spelling errors in their email to me instead of the usual 12+.

This is the email I got from them:

 
This Notice is to inform you that during a recent investigation and recovery of a major spammers list of contacts on Feb 2, 2004, Your email address was among the recovered addresses. As a result of this investigation you should notice a decrease in the amount of spam you were receiving. We cannot however place your address on the National Do Not email list without your permission, Thus the reason for this letter please have your email address included in this Do Not Email list by visiting www.nationalantispamregistry.com and follow the FREE Registration link to be included. This notice is only sent as a courtesy.
 
May we suggest that you either submit your address to The National Anti Spam Registry or become a member of The National Anti Spam Registry for anti spam support or finally update your current anti spam software.
 
The National Anti Spam Registry will be destroying this email list as we have done with previous list siezures, We will never send you another email to this address. We debated for many hours on a course of action due to the sheer size of this recovered list and we decided it would be in the best interest to inform all persons that were on this list via a one time letter. We would also like to inform you that The National Anti Spam Registry does infact offer protective support for individual email addresses.
 
This message is intended for the addressees only. It may contain confidential or privileged information. No rights to privilege have been waived. Any copying, retransmittal, taking of action in reliance on, or other use of the information in this communication by persons other than the addressees is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please reply to the sender by e-mail and delete or destroy all copies of this message.
 
National Anti Spam Registry
P.O.Box 2371
Hammond , LA
70404

What do you think? No way in heck am I giving them my address...

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Deanpaul
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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #1 on: February 9, 2004, 02:14 AM »
I doubt anyone's going to go out of their way to help with internet spam, so I say it's a hoax.
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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #2 on: February 9, 2004, 06:16 AM »
am i seeing correctly? they just offered you antispam by way of spam? this IMO is the epitome of spam.
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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #3 on: February 9, 2004, 08:00 AM »
The government did pass some loose anti-spam laws, but it is not supposed to take place until much later in the year. I get tons of spam and i didnt get that email
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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #4 on: February 9, 2004, 09:07 AM »
You should go to there site & report them for sending you spam mail!  ;D
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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #5 on: February 9, 2004, 02:22 PM »
Got my original reply here wiped out when I went to post it last night...   :-\

Anyway, I had said that this definitely isn't legit, otherwise we would've been hearing about it in the news as much as the "National Do Not Call" registry.  Heck, I'd say that in this day in age, a "Do Not E-mail" registry is even more needed than the "Do Not Call" one, so hopefully we get an official Anti-Spam sign up list some time soon as well!   8)

Good call on not giving them your info Deanpaul.  I definitely wouldn't either!

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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #6 on: February 9, 2004, 05:10 PM »
I hear Bill Gates will send you 500 bucks if you fill that one out.
No really, it's true. My cousin, who is a lawyer checked it out.
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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2004, 05:16 PM »
Update

I saw this this morning at macintouch.com:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20040212/tc_nm/tech_spam_dc

No surprise there.

Later,

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Re: Antispam registry?
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2004, 05:27 PM »
Well there you go. The spam is a scam!  
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