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RonMinNJ
Star Contributor
Burbank, CA
USA
395 Posts |
 Posted - 08/14/2011 : 12:57:55 AM
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I received the following email from: shopper_email_support@sassieshop.com
with the subject line: Your Mystery Shopping emails have been disabled (SASSIE, JobSlinger, etc)
The body of the email says:
Hello from SASSIE Mystery Shopping Systems!
You are receiving this one-time email because you are registered in one or more of the mystery shopping systems on our platform (including over 100 mystery shopping companies and services like JobSlinger and IC Pro).
After multiple attempts, we have been unable to reach you at this email address.
To comply with SPAM regulations, we have put your email address ("*******@aol.com") on our "DO NOT EMAIL" list.
To be removed from this list and start receiving emails again, click this link:
** here were a few links labeled Restart emails and stop Emails, along with the web address typed out**
If we receive no reply from you, we will simply leave you on our DO NOT EMAIL LIST.
SASSIE MYSTERY SHOPPING POSTMASTER
SurfMerchants LLC
41 West Street FL5
Boston MA 02111
617-292-8008
I am worried because although I did not click on the links, I did type the address in to my browser and it then said your email is now confirmed. However a few hours later I got another of the same email.
Has Sassie been hacked? Or is there a Snafu? Has any one else received one of these emails? Can we contact Jack? I sent an email to urgent@sassieshop.com, but they say that they will not respond to shoppers. |
Class room trained and Silver certified with more than 1500 successfully completed shops since 1999! |
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PamInCa
Star Contributor
CA
USA
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DeniseT
Contributor
PA
USA
88 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2011 : 06:57:29 AM
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| I got the email and came here to find out if it is legit. I hope someone posts something official. |
Denise |
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KelliL
Valued Contributor
Placentia, CA
USA
149 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2011 : 10:07:38 AM
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| It came into my AOL box this am......waiting to hear if it is real before I click on any links. |
Happily shopping in North Orange County. |
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JackFromSassie
Valued Contributor
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
118 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2011 : 12:33:30 PM
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Hi Folks, Jack from SASSIE is here.
We DID begin sending emails of this type, so if the link the email is asking you to click begins with "sassieshop.com", it IS legitimate and safe to click.
Here's why we're sending this:
Recently a major spam blocking service started blocking all email from SASSIE (regardless of whether the shoppers wanted the SASSIE emails or not) and causing some headaches for shoppers. One condition of them removing the block was that we institute a stricter "bounce detection" in our emails.
Now, if your mailbox rejects SASSIE emails too many times across too many days, we stop sending email to your address.
Then we let a few days pass (in some cases your email problems are temporary and get cleared up after a few days) and send this "Your Emails Have Been Disabled" email so you can easily turn your emails back on with just one click (we allow you to do this five times - after that our tech support needs to get involved).
Now, we HATE to turn anyone's email off but it's something we have to do to comply with federal regulations and to stay in the good graces of the spam blocking services that dominate much of the email traffic on the internet.
So, sorry for the inconvenience. It's a real shame that spammers make it hard for legitimate parties like SASSIE and mystery shoppers to do proper business with each other.
Hope that helps! Please let me know if there are other questions.
Jack |
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Brigid
Member
Chicagoland, IL
USA
17 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2011 : 1:20:50 PM
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| Thank you, Jack! I have gotten at least six of these emails in the past few days. I just keep hitting the "confirm emails" link. I guess we just keep this up until the problem is resolved. :) |
Brigid
Silver Certified by the MSPA #gx8y6e |
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EmilyPWa
Valued Contributor
Willard, UT
USA
168 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2011 : 3:11:38 PM
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| I am glad since I clicked on it without thinking it could be a scam. (I had received similar emails in the past) I have now received it 3 times. |
Emily
Now shopping in the Ogden UT area
MSPA Gold Certified |
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JackFromSassie
Valued Contributor
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
118 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2011 : 09:13:02 AM
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Update: We've posted an FAQ to cover additional situations like :
* You have an AOL, Netscape or Compuserve (cs.com) email address
* You are repeatedly getting the " "Your Mystery Shopping emails have been disabled (SASSIE, JobSlinger, etc) " email
* You would like to get on our "Protected List" (which prevents your email from getting stopped)
* You've exceeded the 5 email restart limit
It's located at
http://marketing.sassieshop.com/sassieshopperemailfaq.php |
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Suspicious Email appearing to be from Sassie?