Knock Knock, Email List Validation Service Humor



Email list validation has a humorous side. I have been scrubbing email lists for over 10 years and I think it’s time to share with you the hilarious stories while doing email hygiene services. 10 years is a long time to be doing what you love and it seems fitting to finally disclose the funny moments of email list validation service.

The Senator

Can Spam has no say when it comes to the political field. In comes a very well-known Senator a few years back. I received a call from his campaign manager. It was short and sweet. 1.) I need all the data you have in <state redacted> and 2.) I need all of it cleaned. We don’t supply data but we were able to find it for him. We also do not mail but we consulted with them on where to go. At the end of the day, we tens of thousands of dollars from this campaign and received a phone call from the Senator himself, “Great job guys. You F***ing blew my mind at how fast you put this all together!” I still have the recording.

The Porn Star

I got an email I almost deleted one morning as I was just waking up. It was an email from one of the greatest porn stars in adult film today. I responded back and within a day, she paid us to teach them about how the Can-Spam Act works and what they can and can’t do. We also scrubbed a list of everyone in the industry. I thought it was funny cleaning a list of 100,000 porn stars, producers and directors.

The Harvester

We get at least 2 or 3 of these guys a year, “I have 2 billion records. How much to clean?” One day, a dude Skyped me out of the blue asking me about my email validation services. He told me he received an email list from the black market. It was 12 billion emails and he wanted them all validated. Now the funny part, he only had $2,000. I don’t think so. We never scrubbed his 12 billion, but that was not before he sent me the DVD’s in the mail.

The Millionaire

Without naming names, can you see the face of any of the dozens of guys who films themselves on YouTube showing off their Mansions and Lambos? We consulted for one of them. They showed me the lease receipts for the yachts, mansions and cars. It cost them $100,000 to rent the film crew, locations and set. They made 5 million from gullible people who bought their DVD’s on “How to get rich”.

This is the syndicated copy of an original article posted at https://verify550.com/knock-knock-email-list-validation-service-humor/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Email Validation Services - A Thorough Walk Through

Image
Email validation services, unlike email verification, focuses on the threats outside of the email itself. Email validation removes spamtraps, complainers, litigators, botclickers, roles/departmental and seeds while fixing the email removing syntax errors, unicode/latin characters and lastly checks the mx and domain for setup issues. Email validation is the first step in max scrubbing before you use an email verification software to remove bounces. Here are a list of all the modules inside our validation process: Traps   Spamtraps are email addresses that are purposely and strategically placed inside email marketing lists. They are can be caught by harvesting websites, expired domains and in some cases used to fill out forms. Traps can harm email deliverability by being triggered. Litigators   There are several lawyers nationwide and worldwide that sue email marketers. Sleeper cells   Many spam fighters are hosting providers. A sleeper cell email is one...
Read more

Email verification software schematics

Image
Many have asked me what are my Email verification software schematics for list hygiene. It really isn’t a secret. There are 5 fundamental parts of the email address. The user, the name, the domain, the string and the ending. This blog post explains each one of these and why it’s important to build your hygiene schematics around them. The user is the element before the at sign. The user encompasses many different parts. There are dots/periods, underscores and hyphens that separate the user information. Too many of these characters tell us the email is bad. The user information helps remove bad emails before we have to do a SMTP/MX check. The name tells is a lot about the email. Usually names are associated with B2B data in any email verify tool . In many cases, B2B emails do not last that long. This tells us what to do with the email. For example, let’s say we recorded the email as james.carner@. This tells us the person is professional and is interested in their name. We...
Read more