As I never gave my permission for this company to send me an email, this could be considered spam.  Second, instead of using an email system such as Constant Contact, they simply entered everyone’s names from their address book.  And they used the To: field, further exposing everyone’s email addresses.

It is perplexing that in this day and age, people still don’t know how to properly use email for legitimate, responsible marketing purposes.

Perhaps I shouldn’t be so astonished, as just the other day I saw several Facebook posts using a combination of text language, and a bad case of grammar, making the post unpleasant to read.

Incoming search terms:

• viewing profile e-mail address: very

The email comes from Mail Delivery and shows Subsystem Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

The email contains an attachment which holds the payload.  The attachment is called Forwarded Message.html

The body of the email message is as follows, (we substituted the email address):

Note: Forwarded message is attached.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

name@domain.com

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

If you get a message like this, delete it.