Who is watching your e-mails?

[BrumJim]

Colleague of mine sent an e-mail yesterday to a customer, with a flippant comment in the text (not subject) that his new lighting layout will mean that you will need to wear Raybans.

Today, he received a spam e-mail with a special offer on Raybans.

Coincidence?

 

[Tin Pot]

Coincidence.

 

[Jody]

Colleague of mine sent an e-mail yesterday to a customer, with a flippant comment in the text (not subject) that his new lighting layout will mean that you will need to wear Raybans.

Today, he received a spam e-mail with a special offer on Raybans.

Coincidence?

No. I get many a spam with subjects of my recently sent work emails.

 

[BrumJim]

Hmm, need to be careful about e-mails on the subject of Muff Couplings, then.

 

[Milkfloat]

Depends on his email provider, if it is done in house then it should not occur, a free external provider and anything goes.

 

[BrumJim]

All done in house.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

All done in house.

What about the other end?

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Are you talking Outlook emails, or some webmail service like GMAIL ?

 

[jonny jeez]

Colleague of mine sent an e-mail yesterday to a customer, with a flippant comment in the text (not subject) that his new lighting layout will mean that you will need to wear Raybans.

Today, he received a spam e-mail with a special offer on Raybans.

Coincidence?

Depends, do the CIA sell raybans

 

[dst87]

Unlikely that there's a direct link between email and a spam mail provider, but services like Gmail will base Google ads (anywhere online) on contents of your email. I believe Google have confirmed this, though say that no BODY looks at your email; just an automated crawler.

If you don't pay for the product... YOU are the product. I don't use Gmail anymore, and am moving away from Google services generally.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

Colleague of mine sent an e-mail yesterday to a customer, with a flippant comment in the text (not subject) that his new lighting layout will mean that you will need to wear Raybans.

Today, he received a spam e-mail with a special offer on Raybans.

Coincidence?

It's public knowledge that companies like Google scan emails to target advertising.

There are other ways of tracking down your online activities too - all in the name of targeted advertising and national security

 

[BrumJim]

Are you talking Outlook emails, or some webmail service like GMAIL ?

Outlook.

 

[Drago]

I occasionally chunk in random words like "kill Obama ECHELON compromised security breaches" and other than being followed everywhere by a Reaper drone nothing untoward has happened.

 

[Markymark]

Outlook.

Does either the sender or the recipient use a 'free' email provider, yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc?