Goodmail in my inbox – on unsolicited mail

I am confused. I thought goodmail was meant to fix spam or help it and yet here I have two goodmail certified mails from a company who I did'n’t subscribe to and have no idea who they are.

These are the first two goodmail certified mails I have ever seen.

Comments

[Yanni @ Adknowledge, Inc]

Alex - I believe you are referring to either behavior targeting or contextual targeting which is not what we do. We use predictive analytics targeting which is also referred as nearest neighbor. Please feel free to reach out to me off line and I can explain more on how we select campaigns and provide you a diagram of this system.

[Yanni, Adknowledge, Inc]

Tamara - We are not adding any disclosure in the email stating when and how user opted-in to the list. We provide this in the welcome message with an option to opt-out so if someone mistyped an email or someone else signs you up, you can choose to discontinue before you receive any offers. That said, we are considering adding a statement in the message that provides the opt-in information on each message so we can avoid such escalations in future.

[alexschultz]

so no dennis this was my yahoo account and it's my own email. Yanni below sent me the mail!

Yanni I interested to hear where I signed up for this. I have 10years of internet marketing experience and 5 in email. The mail I was sent was randomly about school supplies on the one hand and Niagra falls vacations. Even assuming that I signed up do these seem connected targeting to you? I am very confused as to how you can define this as not spam.

[twitter.com/TheNextCorner]

Alex,
Is this in your GMail account?
Gmail sometimes lands email for other people in your inbox if your login name is similar as the real recipient.
As I have DennisG, I get a lot of email not for my eyes.
Martijn was just here, and he has martijn as his Gmail account. Just imagine how much he gets.

This is sometimes I still intend to investigate a little more, because the documents I have received so far are sometimes quite confidential.
From Resumes, to love letters and lawyer correspondence.

Cheers

DG

[Yanni, Adknowledge, Inc]

Hello my friend,

It is not uncommon for someone to opt-in and not recall after a period of time especially when the senders don't have a strong brand as Facebook or Dell. I have certainly done that at times. I sent you a message earlier this morning with details and thought should respond on your blog as well.

Our record indicates that the user opted-in 6 months ago. When user doesn’t click on the first few messages, we take them off our mailing stream which is why you may have not seen messages from us.

As part of reactivation test utilizing Geo targeting, we sent a targeted message in July and recorded an open. At the conclusion of the test, we identified a new message stream and communicated yesterday again to see if it will be responded which was posted here. I have emailed you the opt-in date/IP/URL and activity date/IP. If you have questions, please respond to the email I sent and I can further assist you. We have taken you off our network so you won't receive another email from us ever :-).

I realized that when we didn’t communicate for so long, we should have sent you another opt-in request that could have avoided this confusion.

[Tamara Gielen]

Hey Alex, are there any clues in these emails about how you got added to their list? If you still have them, would you mind opening the emails and send me (or post) a screenshot?