Re: Equifax/NCR partnership in spam???

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Michael Barnes writes:
> All,
> 
> Does anyone have an opinion of the mail below?  To me it looks like
> deceptive marketing practice where the people at equifaxmktg.com are
> trying to validate emails or something.  The scary thing is that
> equifaxmktg.com appears to be a division of NCR.
> 
> I guess its common knowledge that Equifax is pretty much a spam company
> in disguise a credit company.  But I was under the assumption that NCR
> was a real company.
> 
> Any opinions on this?

I think Equifax used to do e-pending; not sure if they still do.   I
haven't heard anything bad about them in a while.

> Also, this mail was sent via PowerMTA, which appears to be a tool of
> choice for spammers.  I've created a rule for this, should this be a
> standard rule?

PowerMTA is actually a generic MTA app for MacOS, if I recall correctly.
we *had* a rule and removed it due to a high false positive rate.

- --j.
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Re: Equifax/NCR partnership in spam???

[Jim Maul <jm...@elih.org>]

Justin Mason wrote:
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> Michael Barnes writes:
> 
>>All,
>>
>>Does anyone have an opinion of the mail below?  To me it looks like
>>deceptive marketing practice where the people at equifaxmktg.com are
>>trying to validate emails or something.  The scary thing is that
>>equifaxmktg.com appears to be a division of NCR.
>>
>>I guess its common knowledge that Equifax is pretty much a spam company
>>in disguise a credit company.  But I was under the assumption that NCR
>>was a real company.
>>
>>Any opinions on this?
> 
> 
> I think Equifax used to do e-pending; not sure if they still do.   I
> haven't heard anything bad about them in a while.
> 
> 
>>Also, this mail was sent via PowerMTA, which appears to be a tool of
>>choice for spammers.  I've created a rule for this, should this be a
>>standard rule?
> 
> 
> PowerMTA is actually a generic MTA app for MacOS, if I recall correctly.
> we *had* a rule and removed it due to a high false positive rate.
> 
>

http://www.port25.com/products/prod_index.html

Looks pretty legit to me.

-Jim