Saturday, July 05, 2008

eDLink Singapore - Unethical Way of Driving Web Traffic to Site

I received this email in my inbox and felt weird about it.

I didn't register for such a service in the first place. My first thought was "Did anyone sign this up for me?"

Immediately, I attempted to log in at the website. However, fortunately or unfortunately, the given username and password didn't work.
A try at resetting the password shows that the username is not found.

Uh Huh! Another spamming email to drive traffic to its site! The email by eDLink Singapore mimicked a registration confirmation email so that it gets readers of such emails to log on to its website to check it out. According to the spam law in Singapore, all advertising emails/SMS would need to include a in its message title. So eDLink Singapore literally found such a loophole to gain traffic for itself.

I thought such unethical approach by eDLink Singapore would definitely be detrimental to its image.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9:24 PM

    Hello, we are from eDLink. We happen to find your blog and would like to clarify that it was not spam actually.

    singaporewebdesigner.com was our old site run by eDLink. Right now its closed and redirected to our main site. So, you are actually our customer since we previously designed phiron.sg.

    The email that we sent contains login info to the homepage of www.edlinkservices.com for customers. But we have disabled since it's displayed online.

    Apology for the confusion.

    ReplyDelete

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