Miles Technologies and Fran Desmond are SPAMMERS!

[giza]

This spam was sent to the PA-Furry mailing list yesterday. It was intercepted by the list software:

Received: from smtp.4miles.com (ns1.milesdns.com [151.204.41.160] (may be forged))
	by plushie.suespammers.org (8.12.9-20030919/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i05FogMT024971
	for <pa-furry@lists.claws-and-paws.com>; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:50:42 -0800
Received: from mail pickup service by smtp.4miles.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
	 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:51:55 -0500
From: <frand@milestechnologies.com>
To: <pa-furry@lists.claws-and-paws.com>
Subject: Local Computer Service
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:51:53 -0500
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Message-ID: <MICHELE25p1Fjxe0ymQ000282d0@smtp.4miles.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jan 2004 15:51:55.0226 (UTC) FILETIME=[D7ECDBA0:01C3D3A3]

Hello,

Miles Technologies is one of the leading computer consulting companies in
the New York Metropolitan area and the Delaware Valley.

Our trained staff of professionals can provide support for your particular
needs either on-site, on the phone, or remotely.  Miles Technologies
services a wide variety of businesses and will custom tailor your computer
needs to your specific business.

Miles Technologies offers an extensive selection of services that
include:

	Graphic Design and Website Development
	E-Commerce Development
	Custom Software Development
	Network Installation and Support Services
	Software Installation and Support Services
	Hardware Installation and Service
	Email Account Setup and Hosting
	Multiple Office Connectivity
	Technical Support

Please Visit our Website at www.4miles.com

Please call me toll free at 1-800-496-8001 for a Free Consultation.  I
will gladly discuss your needs and answer any of your questions.

Thank You,

Fran Desmond

"You request. We respond. It gets done!"

Locations
South Jersey (Headquarters)
Suite 103
300 West Route 38
Moorestown, NJ 08057

North Jersey
11 Ise Street
South Hackensack, NJ 07606

Call Toll Free: 1-800-496-8001
Fax: 856-439-9910
Website at www.4miles.com

Normally I'd be more forgiving of a single errant e-mail, but these punks also sent the same spam to Anthrocon as well. It's apparent to me that they are using some automated program to scrape addresses that the *think* are in the Delaware Valley area.

I smell a Better Business Bureau complaint in this company's future. If I'm feeling sufficiently nasty, maybe a phonecall to Burlington County Chamber of Commerce, too. But I think posting their spam here is sufficient. Now Google searches on them should bring up this page, and people can see what sort of disguesting marketing practice they engage in. :-)

[Update: I discovered that Miles Technologies is a member of the BCCoC. So I sent them a complaint about their member. Ah, just like the good ol' days of hanging out on SPAM-L!]

Comments

[puctiger.livejournal.com]

Well. After reading what their company does, I emailed them this letter. I wonder if I'll get a response.

Greetings, Savvy Businessman:

Because I am completely incapable of making informed decisions about what technologies my company requires, and because you have so conveniently sent me an informative email (my IT department calls this 'Spam', but what do they know -- this has nothing to do with canned mystery meat!), I would like to request a full catalog of your services. The fact that you are so conveniently located six-hundred miles from our nearest branch implies not only rocket-fast service, but reliability in meeting service guarantees should a failure threaten to cripple our computer, networking, or database infrastructure.

Furthermore, and after consulting with our in-house IT staff, we have come to the conclusion that you may offer a valuable service that's unsurpassable and incomparable to the hundreds and thousands of other IS-related companies out there offering similar services. However -- and I feel rather foolish bringing this up -- my IT Manager has asked me to query you in a few important areas that will help us determine to what extent our future business relations will reach. Please respond with due expediency.

1: The "variety" (I'm not sure why my IT manager wanted me to put that in quotes) of your offered services suggests that you sell something along the lines of a pattern. The pattern Mark -- he's our IT guy -- has noted, is that each of these services could be offered by any Computer Science intern given away by the local Universities for free, if we participate in their program. Why then, Mark wants to know, should we outsource for services (such as Network, Hardware, and Software installation) when we can receive them for free?

2: The '"impact' (again, with the quotes) of your advertising campaign has had a vociferous (that's Mark gloating his M.S. degree) response from the current IT staff already on payroll here. Particularly, they complain that they've received an unnecessary strain on their mail servers that has them resorting to implementing a planned response that consists of modifying their access lists (whatever those are) and preventing any packets (of fruit candy?) from being forwarded by our routers. I'm not sure why Mark wasn't pleased by this -- I enjoy spending the first three hours of my days looking for good bargains right in my own email inbox!

I appreciate your timely response in this matter. Thanks!

With Due Sincerity,

Logan McMackadowski
Chief Operations Officer
Cum-Fuck-Me-Now Publishing.

[khakiwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh... please let ME know if you get a reply. That was brilliant. =)