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Spam Report 2: Case Study profiling BairesDev
As part of my journey uncovering email spammers, I have started publishing some of my results on LinkedIn and tagging individuals in organisations, especially the senior leaders. This strategy is definitely starting to have some impact. In the past two incidents I have received responses from the organisations involved, either by the person who has been tagged or someone who works in the organisation.
Dialogue is good, it means they are taking the exposure seriously. I’m not sure everyone knows that LinkedIn has a super powerful search engine and therefore the possibility of negative press and exposure is a very real possibility. At least I am discovering a positive method for using LinkedIn, instead of just posting adverts about what I am doing and promoting my business, which is basically how most use LinkedIn, that and of course the personal Facebook-like posts that are appearing all over these days.
After posting my spam report I received a comment from the head of Talent Michael Beaulne. I was pleased with the tone of his message (see below) to an extend but it still suggested that they were in their rights to send me this email and that they were offering value. Of course I know the USA is far less regulated compared to the EU and the U.K. and behave like the Wild West when it comes to privacy and people’s data. You only need to look…
