Vegas Frontier and FortuneLounge Spam

[Casinomeister]

I should have noted that when I addressed "Fortune Lounge" in the above post - I was addressing the company as a whole, and not directing it solely to Wim our FL rep in the forum.

Sorry for any unneeded stress

[fortunelounge]

Hi Bryan

No problem.

I am the Fortune Lounge representative here and I am therefore responsible to ensure that issues raised here are dealt with - whether it is within or beyond my control.

Please be assured that we are working on this issue with utmost priority and concern.

VP Operations
Fortune Lounge

[mary]

It's the start of another beautiful day in cyberland.

Affiliate Link:
http://www.dessertdollar.com/default...0_034448&link=

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:05:06 -0400
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From: "Casino-bonus.net" <Vegas_Frontier@xmr3.com>
Subject: Saddle up with Desert Dollar
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This communication was brought to you by a third party and not by Desert Dollar as advertised. Your privacy is extremely important to us and if you feel you got this communication by mistake, or if you wish to alter your subscription status, please go here. Report any spam complaints to spamabusedd@newsletterfl1.com.

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You will receive one additional e-mail message confirming your removal.

[Casinomeister]

...Vegas_Frontier@xmr3.com...

Note the senders email address LOL. Need I say more??

[fortunelounge]

mary: Continuing to post these mails here serves no purpose. We all know by now where these are coming from and we are trying our damndest to do something about it.

I asked you to send me some mails which I did not receive in the end - for whatever reason. All I want is your e-mail address so I can check with the publisher why you are receiving these mails if you have already "unsubscibed".

Unless you want to continue receiving these mails and posting them in this thread, I would appreciate the information I requested.

VP Operations
Fortune Lounge

[mary]

I disagree.

I used the "unsubscribe" function for months with no result.

I sent you fifteen emails, every one of which contained my email address.

Sure, by now I've no doubt that somebody wants to contact Shawn and make sure I'm not receiving these emails.

That doesn't address the problem that Fortune Lounge and Belle Rock are paying a spammer to harrass everybody with an Internet connection with five emails a day.

I'm going to continue to post the spam I get. I'm not going to get my problem solved and let Fortune Affiliates continue to pretend they are guiltless. Fortune Affiliates has the power here to stop this. They choose not to.

[mary]

http://www.fortuneaffiliates.com/affiliate/Spam_FA.jsp

SPAM
At Fortune Affiliates we do NOT endorse SPAM in any way. We do our utmost to comply with all SPAM laws and will never use your details for SPAM. We will not send you anything you have not requested and we will not disclose your details to any other persons, except as necessary to provide you with the best in service and products.

Fortune Affiliates complies with the CAN_SPAM Act 2003 and will not tolerate SPAM from Affiliates. Any Affiliate found to be guilty of spamming will be dealt with appropriately.

At Fortune Affiliates we understand that improved deliverability means improved opportunity and conversion. As part of our ongoing efforts to supply you with more tools to improve your performance with our program, we've added a SPAM compliancy checklist and a list of SPAM trigger words to avoid using in your mailer content or subject lines.

Please feel free to contact us for more info or for anything at all to do with SPAM.

http://www.fortuneaffiliates.com/aff...amChecklist_FA

E-mail SPAM compliancy checklist
The following checklist is a guide to help ensure that your mail complies with the CAN SPAM act and general SPAM laws. This is a guide only and Fortune Affiliate does not guarantee deliverability or full SPAM compliancy by following this guide (although it should definitely help!).

Email Campaign Anti-Spam Guide

The email content:

Add your U.S. Postal Service address to all e-mails you send.
Determine the recipients’ permission status. If any were added in any method other than opt-in, you are required to include a clear notice in a commercial message stating that your message is an advertisement or solicitation. If your list is opt-in or double opt-in, you are exempt from this provision.
‘From’ and ‘subject’ lines are not misleading.
Include a ‘clear and conspicuous’ unsubscribe (opt-out) internet based response mechanism in every e-mail.
Confirm that the content of the email matches recipients’ choices (interests selected).
Provide them a way to receive some types of e-mail from you while blocking other types along with a ‘global unsubscribe’ option to stop all future e-mail from your organization.
If you are sending to a non-house list, be sure the list source did not harvest e-mail addresses or use automated means to randomly generate them.
This will ensure if you are defending a spam suit, damages aren’t aggravated (increased).
Mail that contains sexually-oriented material must include the warning “SEXUALLY- EXPLICIT:”
Before you send:

Merge/purge list sources and process all unsubscribe and suppression requests ensuring you have complied with the max 10-day processing.
Contact any other organizations you have marketing relationships with to obtain their list of unsubscribe requests about your brand. Collect unsubscribe requests from all channels (your telemarketing office or sales dept).
Check technical integrity of the server sending the email – no open relays, false headers, etc
Ensure your opt-out links work for 30 days after the date of your email.
Have an objective person who is not connected with the campaign read the email and confirm that it is not misleading and that it has been properly edited.
After you send:

Review ISP spam complaint reports and take action to attack problem areas. For more information on ISP reports, see Pointnclickinc.com library.
A "transactional or relationship message" – email that facilitates an agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer in an existing business relationship – may not contain false or misleading routing information, but otherwise is exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act. For more information on Can-Spam visit www.FTC.gov/spam and select Rules & Acts.
Please feel free to contact us for more info or for anything at all to do with SPAM.

http://www.riverbellecasino.com/spam-policy.asp

BELLE ROCK GAMING ANTI-SPAM POLICY

Belle Rock Gaming is committed to permission-based e-mail marketing practices, and as a result has established this zero-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy.

Belle Rock Gaming conforms to the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONS CANSpam Act and we do not condone the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk or unsolicited commercial e-mail ("Spam").

To ensure our emails are legal, Belle Rock Gaming will:
Always include your email address in the e-mail message.
Ensure our subject lines are descriptive in nature about the content of the e-mail.
Ensure that the "From" line is not a sales pitch or marketing message.
Ensure our "Reply" address is active
Will display an unsubscribe link in every e-mail.
Honor unsubscribe requests within ten days.
Include a valid physical postal address for our business.

We do not commit any of the following e-mail offences:
use or contain invalid or forged headers;
use or contain invalid or non-existent domain names;
employ any technique to otherwise misrepresent, hide or obscure any information in identifying the point of origin or the transmission path;
use other means of deceptive addressing;
use a third party's internet domain name, or be relayed from or through a third party's equipment, without permission of the third party;
contain false or misleading information in the subject line or otherwise contain false or misleading content;
fail to comply with additional policies and procedures described below.
condone the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through e-mail Hosting Services.

Belle Rock Gaming imposes penalties on Affiliates who do not comply:
If Belle Rock Gaming or our Clients confirm that our Affiliates are guilty of sending unsolicited Spam, we may, without notice, take such action as we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address.

On receiving notification of a valid Spam complaint, and it is the first complaint of this nature, we will issue Affiliates with a warning and advise them to conform to the Federal Trade Commission CANSpam Act. On receiving notification of a second Spam complaint, we will immediately withhold any payment and terminate any Affiliate account linked to transmitting or is otherwise connected with any e-mail that violates this policy.

Should you wish to report any incidences of Spam, please contact us at spam@bellerockgaming.com

[mary]

Now we're getting goofy. This email had no affiliate link in it at all!

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Subject: 1O Free No Purchase Necessary
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Text:

>> $10 Free << Plus 150% Match up to $60 Purchase Let it ride today with 13 Progressive Jackpot games 87 Games to choose from and play instantly Win an Apple iPod a day (only for the month of September, so hurry) This communication was brought to you by a third party and not by Desert Dollar as advertised. Your privacy is extremely important to us and if you feel you got this communication by mistake, or if you wish to alter your subscription status, please go here. Report any spam complaints to spamabusedd@newsletterfl1.com. Desert Dollar: 1934 Driftwood Bay, Belize City, Belize You have received this advertisement through opt-in, to one or more of our offers or by becoming one of our valued customers. If you would like to not recive future emails, please leave here

[spearmaster]

VPops -

Just for your information, Fortune Lounge and Fortune Affiliates have implemented a spam filter which has filtered out the spam emails we have been forwarding (in my case, to Fortune Affiliates) for many months. Talk about the irony...

Needless to say, I believe you should be apologizing to Mary for a fault in your own system which has prevented you from receiving what you asked for - and perhaps much, much more.

Also - "utmost" is a word that Fortune has worn out long, long ago. The only word I believe would carry some weight would be "immediate".

You may not appreciate my barbs, or my very straight-talking attitude - but its for YOUR (meaning the group, not you personally) own good, not mine.

[GrandMaster]

Filtering on Belize in the body of the e-mail works well at the moment.

I have had e-mails bouce back from casinos, because genuine e-mail sent to CS were considered spam by their filtering software. I still have not had a satisfactory explanation why casinos don't automatically whitelist depositing players.

I have another question to Fortune Lounge and Belle Rock. While they mention the rather weak American CANSPAM Act, why don't they require compliance with European data protection laws for e-mails sent to Europe? For example, it is illegal to send unsolicited commercial e-mail to private e-mail addresses in the UK. Even better, they could require affiliate and "publichers" only to use double opt-in lists.