Mail from Lawrence

[Mrd]

Hi,
today i become a Mail from Lawrence.
Title Your November 20111 EBulletin.
the Mail make a professional Look, likes an REal VBS/IB Mail.
But in the Mail are Links to click.shopping.ibemail

Is this an Pishing Mail or what?
Sender is Lawrence Cole

[Mitzy]

Post it up.

[Janmaat]

Received it too. Seems to be Spam I guess.







@Mrd
Psst, become bedeutet werden got oder received ist besser.

[Ace]

If it says November 20111, it's been sent a little early.

[Mrd]

Hi,
here is the Mail, and every Link goes to click.shopping.ibemail

[AlexanderT]

It's IB's mailing list. They are using the same for their other IB-related forums. Links to click.shopping.ibemail they use to track you down.

[Arkham]

It's IB's mailing list. They are using the same for their other IB-related forums. Links to click.shopping.ibemail they use to track you down.

There's nothing wrong with that, it's standard practice in email systems in order to track clicks and conversions. It's the rule rather than the exception to have tracking links work through the actual sender's product's domain, e.g. in this case *.vbulletin.com".

[IanW-GC8]

Seems fine to me, shame I didn't actually get it!

I did, but it got detected as Bulk/Junk Mail by Google for me.

[Arkham]

For the hell of it, I created a test mailing in our email system (an enterprise ~£20K yearly service) and pasted the entire source. I think I found the issue.

Running the basic pre-send spam report, this stands out:

PTS Rule Description
2.0 URIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the URIBL blacklist
NaN [URIs: ibemail.com]

A 2pt spam score on its own for that issue alone, which is NOT good.

Someone at IB should visit uribl.com and request a de-listing from their blacklist.

[Trevor Hannant]

If it says November 20111, it's been sent a little early.

Huh?!

[HMBeaty]

Huh?!

20111 - 2011 = 18,100 years too early

[Trevor Hannant]

20111 - 2011 = 18,100 years too early

Weird, mine says 2011 both in the mail and subject fields...

[Ace]

Weird, mine says 2011 both in the mail and subject fields...

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Read the OP. It mentions 20111.

[Lawrence Cole]

Hi,
today i become a Mail from Lawrence.
Title Your November 20111 EBulletin.
the Mail make a professional Look, likes an REal VBS/IB Mail.
But in the Mail are Links to click.shopping.ibemail

Is this an Pishing Mail or what?
Sender is Lawrence Cole

It is a legitimate email. We are working out the spam issues with our email provider. My goal is to A)get the word "shopping" removed. It may as well say "cheap viagara" if its going to say that. B) have the domain match vbulletin.com, which is another issue. The account is a company wide IB account and not specific to vB. At any rate, thanks for the feedback.

[Alfa1]

I hope that you will learn from your mailing experience enough, to the degree that you will apply your experience to the vbulletin mailing method/functionality.