August 14, 2007

Could Spammers Destroy Adobe’s Online Marketing Effort?

by Piers Fawkes in Web & Technology, Advertising & Branding

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Alongside the spam we all get for viagra, penis enlargements, buy-this-stock now alerts (tell us that you get them too, yeah? yeah?), one of the prominent spam messages doing the rounds is for free or cheap Adobe software. Which makes us think: If we’re all telling our email programs that messages with the words ‘Adobe’ are spam, what does that do to Adobe’s online marketing effort. Surely any newsletter or email alerts from the software maker to promote their Creative Suite 3 will just be redirected to our Junk Mail boxes…

One Response to “Could Spammers Destroy Adobe’s Online Marketing Effort?”

Seb
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August 14th, 2007 at 10:29 am

You raise an interesting point - and perhaps a good concept for some potential cyber-crime. I wonder if you could deliberately attempt to damage a brand by going crazy sending spam with keywords associated with them to all and sundry…