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"Renewal by Andersen" illegal Email spam
Apr 3, 2019 18:50:24   #
Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles
 
These spammers and/or their 'affiliates' send numerous spams to my email ever single day, touting their 'window replacement' or 'renewal' products and services. Their activities are IMO illegal as heck under federal CAN SPAM and other laws. I reached Andersen's legal department and was promised they'd stop sending their trash to me, a promise that turned out to be a stinking lie.

The perps use numerous technical dirty tricks to get past my anti-trash filters; I assume they send vastly more junk email than I actually get from them.

Anyone sue Andersen? Under what law, and what results? Any comments on how to get them to halt their endless stream of trash messages? Anyone know why the FCC, FTC, USPS have not gone after them for their massive unlawful spamming?

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Apr 3, 2019 20:15:11   #
Vietnam Vet
 
I can block incoming email addresses in my juno email

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Apr 3, 2019 20:26:57   #
Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles
 
Vietnam Vet wrote:
I can block incoming email addresses in my juno email


RBA apparently uses spoofed origin email with changes in the false origin addresss, different spamming services, etc. So some of it gets past my anti-spam.

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Oct 26, 2020 04:40:48   #
avTronic Loc: Washington State
 
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
These spammers and/or their 'affiliates' send numerous spams to my email ever single day, touting their 'window replacement' or 'renewal' products and services. Their activities are IMO illegal as heck under federal CAN SPAM and other laws. I reached Andersen's legal department and was promised they'd stop sending their trash to me, a promise that turned out to be a stinking lie.

The perps use numerous technical dirty tricks to get past my anti-trash filters; I assume they send vastly more junk email than I actually get from them.

Anyone sue Andersen? Under what law, and what results? Any comments on how to get them to halt their endless stream of trash messages? Anyone know why the FCC, FTC, USPS have not gone after them for their massive unlawful spamming?
These spammers and/or their 'affiliates' send nume... (show quote)


Just so you are aware, all of the marketing email I get from Renewal by Andersen is all phishing and scam emails. They are not from Andersen nor is Andersen affiliated with them. You can click on the sender of the email to see that it is not any official email address for Andersen. Maybe something close to it but usually completely different. It's terrible that our email programs allow people to attach what is called "Friendly-From name". This can be anything they input and what you see as who the email is from. Although, when you click on it you see it's from someone else. This is what scammers do. Another scam is when they actually hacked someone's email, let's say a friend that has you in their contacts. They send emails out with your friends email name, with their own generic email address they just signed up for, but all you see at first is your friends name. The email usually has a link for you to click on that "your friend" is wanting you to click on. Worse yet, it may actually have an attachment that they hope you click on to view, which of course is a virus.

There are many ways they try to scam but the Andersen email must be in the top 10 I get. Although they all goes to my junk folder and I do check it every now and then, to make sure no important emails has gone there by mistake. They just want you to click on a link on that email to take you to an unsecure site and hope that you start putting in your personal info. Even just opening the email and auto-loading content in your emails, lets them know your email is valid so they keep sending junk (as well as sell your email address). You can and should make a change to your email settings to help block this.
You should go into your email setting and do the following; Turn up your spam filtering to send more of this spam mail to your junk folder. Secondly, turn of the loading of server content in emails. Most every email you get, spam or not, loads graphics from the server of the company sending you the email. Normally this is fine but even legitimate companies get a confirmation you are checking the email and use it to track if their emails are being read (for marketing improvements). Well the scammers use the same technique. If you even just open an email (with the option to load server content always), then they get confirmation that you have opened the email. Turning this feature off is a pain, since every legitimate email will also be missing graphics and such. You can click on "show images" and then it will appear normal. You can also right click on the email (in the email list (not the opened email) and click on Junk and then "Not Junk". This will save the senders email to a safe list that will not accidently be sent to your spam folder. It will also open all images in future emails so it's not so much of a pain.

I know this was long but hope it helps and hope others read this and it helps them.
-Remmik

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Oct 26, 2020 09:30:09   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
avTronic wrote:
Just so you are aware, all of the marketing email I get from Renewal by Andersen is all phishing and scam emails. They are not from Andersen nor is Andersen affiliated with them. You can click on the sender of the email to see that it is not any official email address for Andersen. Maybe something close to it but usually completely different. It's terrible that our email programs allow people to attach what is called "Friendly-From name". This can be anything they input and what you see as who the email is from. Although, when you click on it you see it's from someone else. This is what scammers do. Another scam is when they actually hacked someone's email, let's say a friend that has you in their contacts. They send emails out with your friends email name, with their own generic email address they just signed up for, but all you see at first is your friends name. The email usually has a link for you to click on that "your friend" is wanting you to click on. Worse yet, it may actually have an attachment that they hope you click on to view, which of course is a virus.

There are many ways they try to scam but the Andersen email must be in the top 10 I get. Although they all goes to my junk folder and I do check it every now and then, to make sure no important emails has gone there by mistake. They just want you to click on a link on that email to take you to an unsecure site and hope that you start putting in your personal info. Even just opening the email and auto-loading content in your emails, lets them know your email is valid so they keep sending junk (as well as sell your email address). You can and should make a change to your email settings to help block this.
You should go into your email setting and do the following; Turn up your spam filtering to send more of this spam mail to your junk folder. Secondly, turn of the loading of server content in emails. Most every email you get, spam or not, loads graphics from the server of the company sending you the email. Normally this is fine but even legitimate companies get a confirmation you are checking the email and use it to track if their emails are being read (for marketing improvements). Well the scammers use the same technique. If you even just open an email (with the option to load server content always), then they get confirmation that you have opened the email. Turning this feature off is a pain, since every legitimate email will also be missing graphics and such. You can click on "show images" and then it will appear normal. You can also right click on the email (in the email list (not the opened email) and click on Junk and then "Not Junk". This will save the senders email to a safe list that will not accidently be sent to your spam folder. It will also open all images in future emails so it's not so much of a pain.

I know this was long but hope it helps and hope others read this and it helps them.
-Remmik
Just so you are aware, all of the marketing email ... (show quote)


I mostly get emails purporting to increase the size of either my breasts or my penis. Seems they could at least make up their mind. I'm sure there are people who want to increase the size of both, but I doubt there are enough of them to be commercially viable.

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