I emailed Mark via the website (and copied it to Birding-aus) and he
confirmed that it was done by Balangara as "crowd-funding" - which I guess
is the new term for illegal activities!
On 20 November 2011 13:03, Mark and Amanda Young <
> wrote:
> G'day everyone,
>
>
>
>
>
> Some interesting discussions on this topic, but I feel that most of you
> have
> made one wrong assumption and missed the point completely on this whole
> issue. And that assumption is that these emails are legitimately sent by
> Balangara. They are not. This is nothing more than a scam set up by other
> parties posing as Balangara to get you to part with your money. If you look
> more closely at the emails you can see some clues to point this out.
>
>
>
> 1. First, as has been pointed out already, very few legitimate
> companies or organisations that are trying to raise funds will do so
> illegally by doing mass mailings that contravene the Spam act(2003). Why
> would any legit org/Co want to create bad publicity that would have the
> opposite effect that they are intending by taking such a course of action?
>
> 2. If in doubt, check out the company's website and contact them! Has
> anyone yet contacted Mark @ Balangara? I sent him an email this morning
> bringing this issue to his attention. I hope to get a reply from him soon.
>
> 3. Check the email address of the sender against the email address
> found on the website. The address that comes with the emails is
> mark= But if you go to Balangara's
> website, the email address they supply on their contacts page is
>
> <=Hello%20again>
>
> 4. Don't EVER click on any links in the email! This includes
> unsubscribe options! Really important. If you click on a link thinking you
> are unsubscribing you aren't in fact unsubscribing, in fact the very
> opposite will happen. By clicking on a link in a scam email as this one,
> you
> are in fact confirming to the spammers that your email address is a
> legitimate one. They will then send you more spam and scam emails because
> they know you will respond to them.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
>
>
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