Spam Emails due to Youth08 mistake!
Posted in Event, Google | By AhTim @ January 16th, 2008
If you have participated in Youth08, I believe your mailbox is already full with spam emails when you see this post. I have received more than 60 emails within hours! This inccident was started when Hongkiat send reminder email to Youth08 and cc to all bloggers in the list. Then many bloggers start to spam 396 blogger’s mailbox.
After few minutes, I have received email from Youth08 claimed that they were “too excited to share with bloggers” so made the mistake.
Dear Participants,
We are extremely sorry and deeply apologize for sending out the mailers without realizing that it was not in the BCC column. I guess we got over excited to share with you on the updates of the event.
Please accept our sincerest apologies. We look forward to seeing you this Friday.
Thank You.
Best Regards,
Joel Neoh
Project Director
YouthMalaysia.com
Fortunately I am using Gmail, those spam conversation emails all consolidate into one email. For those bloggers that not using Gmail, their mailbox sure get spammed and mess up by the mass mail.
We have learned 2 things from this inciddent:
1. Do not ever reveal your email to non-trusted organizations or person. Your mailbox might get spam anytime.
2. Use Gmail as your webmail service provider 
How about you? Have your mailbox get spammed?
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Tags: gmail, spam emails, youth08
January 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
i also use gmail, i also kena like u.
no wonder malaysia slogan is “boleh”
semua barang boleh termasuk spam …..hehehe=p
January 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Oh… this is a shame, luckily i didn’t join,
August 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Yea,gmail is the best in filtering spams