{"id":376,"date":"2009-12-01T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T11:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-01-18T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:43:58","slug":"spam-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Spam at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having kept my work email address very private for almost 10 years now, suddenly it&#8217;s become a target for Spam.  It started a few weeks back with a few targeted emails from companies in the computer industry, suggesting that one of our clients had probably sold their contact database.  Then this morning I received an email from a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laithwaites.co.uk\/\">Laithwaites<\/a> trying to sell me bottles of wine.  The Spam didn&#8217;t come from their email domain, they used a domain of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xmr3.com\">xmr3.com<\/a> which is owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premiereglobal.com\/\">Primiere Global Services<\/a> who are an &#8220;eMarketing provider&#8221; which means they offer bulk spamming services.  Well done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laithwaites.co.uk\/\">Laithwaites<\/a>, no better way to wreck the name of your company than hiring a bulk spamming outfit to do your advertising.  Oh well, if the wine business goes down the pan, at least you&#8217;ll have contacts that can help you with selling Viagra and Penis Extenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having kept my work email address very private for almost 10 years now, suddenly it&#8217;s become a target for Spam. It started a few weeks back with a few targeted emails from companies in the computer industry, suggesting that one of our clients had probably sold their contact database. Then this morning I received an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=376\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spam at work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}