Posted by CopperheadVA on 8/26/09 6:11am
Msg #301702

Notary Solutions, Kennesaw GA - bad form!

It's bad form when a signing service chooses to use its notary database of vendors to SPAM it with the Bill Gates e-mail "Take a Shot". You know, the one that promises that Bill Gates will track the e-mail and pay you $$$$ for forwarding it to as many people as possible within two weeks?

Geeze, people, check it out on Snopes.com before you embarrass yourself by sending this kind of stuff out. From the looks of it, Notary Solutions sent it to hundreds of their vendors.

Reply by PAW on 8/26/09 7:09am
Msg #301703

It may not be from them!

Good spammers and hackers know how to spoof emails. I have received too many to count that appear to be from some well known and often respected organization (FedEx, IRS, etc.). The spam or phishing or virus laden emails are generated then spoofed with names from legitimate sites and companies. This is not to say that this is the situation in this particular mailing or any others, just that it does happen all too often. Carefully examine the message headers. You may notice that the email is forged or not really sent from the IP address that valid emails from the company are sent from.

Reply by Maureen_nh on 8/26/09 8:35am
Msg #301708

Re: It may not be from them!

What i really love is getting spam from myself or seeing my address in the junk mail file.
If you see anything from me promising pils to delite your girl --not from me.

Reply by Jim/AL on 8/26/09 8:37am
Msg #301710

lol Maureen, does she take them or me? n/m

Reply by CopperheadVA on 8/26/09 10:23am
Msg #301729

Re: It may not be from them!

It looked like a regular e-mail that had been forwarded about 5 times over. Each forwarded message had all the e-mail addresses listed that the person had forwarded to. When Notary Solutions sent it, it had about 300 e-mail addresses listed in the "TO" section, including mine.

Reply by MW/VA on 8/26/09 12:25pm
Msg #301753

Re: It may not be from them!

OMG! Did you call them about it?

Reply by Sharon Taylor on 8/26/09 11:00am
Msg #301732

Guaranteed it is not from them

I'll bet you 2 refi closings and raise you one RM that their email address list was hijacked. I got an email a while back from one of the small SS I love working with, which was supposedly an invite from the SS owner to join some social networking site. I knew she wouldn't send me such a thing, so I called her, and she confirmed that somehow her email address list was accessed and copied by something, and it was sending that message out to everyone on it. She was frantically trying to allay the damage it caused with the title companies she worked for who had received it.