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finnword1
finnword1
United States
Local time: 10:20
English to Finnish
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Oct 12, 2023

Received the following offer today:

"Would you be interested in purchasing any of the following Targeted Email list for your upcoming campaigns?
Industries: Scopists, Editor, Court Reporters, Interpretation, Translation, Interpreters, Transcribers, Proofreaders, CART Providers, Videographers, Litigation Support Companies and Others?"

(looks like I am already on the sender's "targeted" list. Anyone else received it?)
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 15:20
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Mailing lists Oct 13, 2023

I was regularly bombarded with messages like that for a while but then they stopped suddenly…
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 16:20
Member (2009)
English to German
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Never buy email lists - you'd risk to become labeled as spammer Oct 15, 2023

Buying mailing lists is among the worst things one can do.
The addresses are often "acquired" in not-so-legal ways and the lists may contain not-existent/wrong addresses
or so called spam traps or honeytraps (addresses used by email providers, companies etc. to detect spammers).
Those recipients also haven't agreed to receive messages from you and most probably they are not interested
in what you offer, so they would delete your emails or, even worse, mark them as spam.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 


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