[EL] Legal PR Spam

[Paul Gronke]

Thanks to all. I found a common element in the full header of the
email.  For the colleagues who've already emailed asking for a
solution!

If your system allows you to view full header, you'll see something like this:

Received: 	from spgate01.vocus.com (spgate01.vocus.com.
[66.77.65.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
gc2si5017599qab.89.2011.12.03.03.00.40; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:00:40
-0800 (PST)
	Received: 	from SPJOB07 (10.1.1.27) by spgate01.vocus.com id
hr80lg173sge for <paul.gronke at gmail.com>; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 05:59:55
-0500 (envelope-from <PR.1015954.293152 at prnews2.com>)
	Return-Path: 	<PR.1015954.293152 at prnews2.com>


You can filter on the string "Vocus.com". You won't see this if you
look at the message, you have to look at the full header.

Thanks!


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Mitchell L. Pearl <MPearl at langrock.com> wrote:
> Many of these are scams.  Be careful!
>
> ________________________________
> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick
> Hasen
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:22 PM
> To: Paul Gronke
> Cc: law-election at uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] Legal PR Spam
>
> I would guess it is because you are co-editor of the esteemed Election Law
> Journal.
>
> On 3/28/12 10:19 AM, Paul Gronke wrote:
>
> Colleagues
>
> Sorry to clog your email box with a question about clogging email boxes.  I
> have gotten on some sort of legal PR spam list in the last few months.  I
> can identify all the emails because they generally announce some sort of
> litigation, they list what seems like a legitimate legal firm, and when I
> click on the "opt out" address, I am directed to a site that looks like:
>
>         (FIRMNAME).pr-optout.com
>
> I think I have tracked the firm that manages the PR list,  Vocus.Com.  They
> are the owner o the "pr-optout.com" domain.  If you google "pr-optout.com"
> it looks like a legitimate PR list.  The problem I have is that I can't
> remove myself globally and have to respond to each new email individually.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how I got onto their lists and how to stop it.  Are
> they harvesting this listserv?  Has anyone else been getting these and been
> successful in removing your name?
>
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Reed College

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