Approximately a dozen Attrition.org e-mail addresses have received spams from this company. Once again we have a security company spamming people, although in this particular situation we did receive a reply from them admitting their tactics.
From: knash (knash@protexx.com) To: lyger@attrition.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:01:29 -0400 Subject: 2008 IT survey Are your clients concerned about data and identity security? If not they are among the minority. According to a 2008 IT survey 93% of the IT professionals responded that they had at least a moderate interest in providing security around sensitive data or doing additional research this year. In addition, 84% of the respondents felt that securing access to corporate data resources (network access, email, proprietary data) was of immediate interest. This is a revenue opportunity for you today and the Protexx identity authentication and 2048 Bit encryption tools can help you achieve this revenue. The Protexx solutions provide an easy to deploy software solution that secures any platform. Protexx has developed a state-of-the-art standards based PKI solution that meets or exceeds all government reporting and security requirements (HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI). So whether your needs are implementing an easy to deploy yet robust solution to protect your internal users or design a solution for your clients, we have the solutions for you and best of all it is affordable. Why not let us show you how you can satisfy your customer~Rs data security concerns today? We would like to meet with you to discuss how we might work with you to achieve new revenue and build a strategy to increase your client satisfaction. If you would like to participate in future survey's or if you would like to receive more information [http://www2.protexx.com/affiliates/index.html?w=RESPONSE10&p=P1026] Click Here. You can also email Protexx at [mailto:sales@protexx.com] sales@protexx.com. This message was sent by: Protexx, Inc., 10 Fairway Dr, Deerfield Beach, FL 33441 Powered by iContact: http://freetrial.icontact.com Forward to a friend: http://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/forward?m=123930&s=8774060&c=IKB9&cid=226373 To be removed click here: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=8774060&l=6365&s=IKB9&m=123930&c=226373
From: Kirby Nash (knash@protexx.com) To: 'lyger' (lyger@attrition.org) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:51:10 -0400 Subject: RE: 2008 IT survey Iyger, I do apologize for sending you this email. We are just trying to promote our new product and we thought the list was a opt-in list. You will not receive any more emails from us and once again I am sorry for the mix up. Sincerely, Kirby Kirby Nash Vice President of Sales Protexx, Inc. 10 Fairway Dr, Suite 107 Deerfield Beach, FL 33441 c: 917-620-9068 www.Protexx.com
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:45:29 EDT From: EstimatorCorp@aol.com To: William Knowles, pletizia@protexx.com, knash@protexx.com Cc: dfeldman@protexx.com, info@protexx.com, sales@protexx.com, support@protexx.com Subject: Re: Our humble apology Dear Mr. Knowles Your name and the other potential domain links, have been removed and again we apologize for any inconvenience... As a matter of fact we will not be using that list we acquired, as you are correct, and the manner in which we ran the test was inappropriate. Again we apologize... This message is totally secured in transit with 2048 Bit Protexx encryption. Download trial at: www.Protexx.com Internet Security Point ~ Click ~ Secured Data In Transit Software Solutions Mark L Myers, Chairman 35 Evergreen Parkway, Westport CT 06880 Phone: 203 682 6436, Fax 203 227 4549 E-Mail: mmyers@protexx.com Web Site: _www.protexx.com_ (http://www.protexxinc.com/)
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