topic Re: spam from Shopping Express in Buying

spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 03:59:20 GMT

this is a bit off topic i suppose but i am a buyer anywwayz, are others also getting spam email from a company called Shopping Express? i received 4 in the last week & i have never dealt with them before so i shouldn't be subscribed to any emails from them.

I notice i only got them on both the email addresses i have linked to my 2 ebay accounts, not on any other emails. So i am presuming ebay sold my details to them or the company is partly owned by ebay or something, i could be wrong though. If this is correct doesn't it violate some sort of privacy law?

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:33:44 GMT

Yes, I am also getting spammed by them and like you, have never dealt with them. They are an Australian company so can be reported to ACMA for unsolicited emails. You can forward the email to them, which you can find here . Don't change anything in the subject line or anything in the body of the email, just hit forward and send.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:47:16 GMT

thanks ilovemysheep, i have forwarded the email to them. I still wonder if they got my email address from ebay though, no way of proving it i guess.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:11:33 GMT

I can only assume that it was because I haven't subscribed to anything for a LONG time and even then, I have a hotmail address for that kind of thing (different to my eBay email address). I've also been getting recent spam from Discovery Buying. I don't get much spam, even though I've had this email address for quite a few years, mostly because I use my hotmail address for subscriptions, yet the last 2 weeks it's been coming in thick and fast.

If anyone else is getting spammed by Shopping Express I suggest you report the email as it's illegal in this country to send unsolicited emails.......regardless of whether they have an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:14:44 GMT

I would think its also illegal for Ebay to pass on our email addresses to another company to be used for spam, then again with all their agreements we're forced to agree to i spose they get away with it using some clever wording. The emails actually from ebay advertising sales pre/post Xmas have been bad enough let alone any others, i dont mind getting some from them occasionally but its been excessive/

Re: spam from Shopping Express

dang..er — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 09:55:46 GMT

Yep, I'm getting spammed by them too. I've never made a purchase from them and I can confirm 100% that they are somehow using email addresses from eBay.

I can provide this certainty because I used a little known tagging feature of gmail to create a unique email address that I've only stored in my email preferences on eBay. By adding +tag to your gmail address it will still deliver to your account, but it will include the tag. eg myemail+tag@gmail.com or myemail+ebay@gmail.com or myemail+whatever@gmail.com will all deliver to myemail@gmail.com, and will report the tag in the delivery address)

The fact that Shopping Express spam is send to "myemail+ebay@gmail.com" kinda gives the game away. Busted.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:59:24 GMT

If that is the case then it seems to be in direct contrast to what i found here in their privacy policy 'Marketing We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent' ....which i never gave them. But how to prove it, i'm not sure that what you have said dang..er is going to hold up in court so to speak.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

cq_tech — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:02:08 GMT

Shopping Express is wholly owned by Apus Corporation, and given that I'm also being spammed on BOTH of my eBay IDs, including one I've never used here, I can only surmise that they are either partly owned by eBay, or that eBay have sold their member list to Apus. It can only be one or the other, and I personally believe that Apus is partly owned by eBay myself.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 03:51:39 GMT

I strongly suggest that everyone who is being spammed by this mob report each and every one to ACMA. The more people that file a report, the more likely that they will be punished. I got 2 more last night, which I forwarded onto ACMA. Interestingly, I marked them as spam and set my filter to detect them as spam, yet they still came into my inbox. I'll have to check the headers because their return email address is probably not the email address they are being sent from.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 04:00:19 GMT

I was right, the emails are being sent from 'emcsend.com'

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 04:31:19 GMT

i will be reporting mine but i can bet the majority of people who receive them won't, people can't be bothered/don't have time or are sheep & actually buy from them. They wouldn't bother spamming people unless sheep responded to them. Looks like they have been deliberately sneaky to hide who/where its actually been sent from.

In the case of ebay partly or wholly owning a company who is spamming then legally i wonder if they are breaching the privacy rules because technically speaking they are not passing on the email addresses to a third party?

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 06:01:14 GMT

Please don't use my name in vain 😄 😄 :D!! Sheep are actually highly intelligent animals. In fact, it has been proven scientifically that they are smarter than dogs, dolphins and monkeys.

I know what you're trying to say though and I reckon you are right. People see % discounts and can't click on the links quick enough thinking they are getting a bargain. These are the same people that can't hit the forward button quick enough when someone sends them a hoax email saying "send to everyone you know". They are the same ones who think they really have won millions in the UK lottery or that some Nigerian royalty has died and wants to give them money.

When you look at their privacy policy (shopping express), apparently they have strict policies on privacy. You will only receive their newsletters if you have subscribed to them. I call BULL DUST on that one!!!

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 08:40:00 GMT

oops sorry LOL, i wasn't thinking! hmm i might have to give up eating lamb, we don't need to suck anymore intelligence out of the earth!

You mean i'm not going to get that money the nice Nigerian man promised me?? I feel sorry for Nigerians, there must be many innocent Nigerians who have been given a bad name by the scammers.

Yes peoples common sense seems to fly out the window when it comes to grabbing a bargain, just look how many idiots lined up for hours for the Boxing Day sales, haven't they heard of online shopping?!

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:30:01 GMT

Why give up eating lamb? I certainly haven't! I just prefer not to know my food LOL.

People are idiots when it comes to the Boxing Day sales. I have known people that will open the presents with their family in the morning, then instead of spending the rest of the day with family, having lunch or dinner, they get in the car and camp outside DJ's or Myers so they get pole position. They waste their entire Christmas Day so they can be first in line for the sales the next day. They are worse than those idiots who line up outside the Apple store when a new iphone is about to be released!

I read that a BILLION dollars was going to be spent between Christmas and new year at the sales, most being spent on Boxing Day. Thankfully, very few places are open here on Boxing Day. Surpercheap Auto, Autobarn and not much else so there wasn't that psychotic event like in the city.

The really sad part about the idiots hitting the sales is, majority of the purchases will go on credit and they'll spend the next (several) year/s paying it off with ridiculous interest rates. The others will get on A Current Affair complaining about how high the interest rates are, have the poor me attitude happening and tell everyone how their kids are missing out due to crippling interest rates. Probably hoping someone will feel sorry for them. I have NO sympathy!

I did all my Christmas shopping 2 days before Christmas. I didn't pay full price for anything except the packet of Allen's snakes that I put in my husbands stocking. Everything else was 40-60% off. I have checked the 'sale' prices of everything I bought and they are no cheaper at the post Christmas sales than what I paid for them before.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

redders_60 — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 06:03:39 GMT

I'm getting spammed by a company called Kogan. They sell on ebay. I blocked their spam, which worked for a few days over Xmas, but they're back again today & have got around my blocks!

I'd been getting 6 or more emails a day (to what is my ebay & PPal address) Maybe not the same company as your spammer, but most annoying nonetheless!

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 06:25:39 GMT

yes i have learnt over the years a sale is rarely really a sale, i have even caught out stores claiming something to be on discount only to se the same thing when the 'sale' is over at the same price as the supposed discount. People who pay for Xmas on credit are fools, although having said that i guess i can understand parents wanting to provide their kids with the latest IT toy.

Theres alot of pressure to get the latest thing, usually an Xbox or something expensive, when i was a kid it was at least something a bit cheaper like a Barbie doll or toy cars. The in toy back then was a Baby Alive doll, but i was a tomboy & hated dolls & wondered why anyone would want a doll that you had to feed & it pooed LOL.

I am still getting the spam, i can't even see an unsubsribe link on it so i just keep reporting them, up to 8 now, i haven't heard back from the spam people apart from an automated reply but i guess they're on holidays. I wonder if anything will come of it eventually, i hope they get fined or something.

As for Kogan, they are a pretty well known online brand now, i;m kinda suprised they would spam. Just keep reporting them or unsubscribe.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 06:45:58 GMT

I haven't had any from them for a few days now. I forwarded on every one that I got. I'm not sure if it's coincidence or whether the spam people have acted (although I'm guessing they would still be on break until at least Monday).

I am always reluctant to use unsubscribe links because it shows them that the email address is both valid and active, so might be an invitation to send more, or at the very least, sell your email address to someone else.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:08:46 GMT

true about the unsubscribe links, although i've usually found with local spam they tend to work, its the overseas viagra spam etc where i wouldn't even bother with unsubscribe, but don't need to anyway as spam filters work very well nowdays.

I'm still getting the emails & still reporting them!

Re: spam from Shopping Express

i-love-my-sheep — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:56:02 GMT

I set up a 'message rule', which either deletes then without me seeing them, or bounces them back to the sender. I've not had any since I did that.

Re: spam from Shopping Express

barney_rubbles — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:36:29 GMT

i could do that too but then i wouldn't have the satisfaction of reporting them I also decided to report them on this link as i'm able to provide more details including the fact i've never bought anything from them & i suspect Ebay may have given them my email address:

ACMA online complaints form