web design

geekshoes.com Are Spammers - First Spam of 2009

Today I received my first spam email of 2009, as you'll remember I received one in all 2008. It was from geekshoes who wrote:

Your email address was found to be publicly available on your website and it has not been added to any list. We consider this to be a polite way to contact you and apologise sincerely if you have been inconvenienced in any way. As readers will recall, I do not make my email address available to anyone who comes to the website as you have to go through a contact form or phone me to reach me.

The email address they used also does not follow the normal email creation pattern that I use. All this tell me they used a random email address to attempt to spam me.

As always, I do not suggest anyone purchase things from companies that spam or any of their other companies (geeksneakers, aboutsneakers, geekhandbags, you get the picture..).

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