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Axill, Total Spam

Posted in Computers & Technology, SEO, Spam by Elliott Back on December 12th, 2005.

Another email I received recently, this time in the contextual advertising / SEO arena:

Sub: CPM offer from Axill.com on your website.

Axill is one of the fastest growing publisher network. Axill provides a complete solution for publishers to generate huge revenue from their websites by offering the best offers on the web and facilitates the publishers to keep track of their performance by providing online reporting. Axill works with publishers to improvise their performance by suggesting the suitable offers and programs based on the website content

We are looking for CPM based advertising on the home page of website& would like to know your advertising rates. Payment would be done every 15 days via Paypal / check based on your convenience.

We would be serving only java script code for banners. We request you to please tell us what banner sizes you accept. Currently we serve 728×90 & 120×600.

Waiting for a positive reply

As this email is unsolicited commercial email without prior business relationship and lacking disclaimer of intent and an opt-out method, Axill is formally in violation of the US can-spam act. As such, they may be liable for as much as $11,000 in fines per incident. So far, there’s not much to learn about them from other bloggers, so I’ll assume they’re new and go easy on them with the following brief rejoinder:

To whomever,

I do not appreciate unsolicited commercial email resplendent in typographical errors, non-compliant with US anti-spam laws, and lacking a proper subject line and regular paragraph spacing. Recently I learned a phrase in Chinese which might apply to your efforts to seduce me to an advertising network which cannot possibly benefit me: ????!

Please reconsider your email marketing efforts and legal compliance, and remove me from any future mailing or contacts database.

Hopefully that gets the point across…

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