{"id":91455,"date":"2013-11-10T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=91455"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:39:44","slug":"da-explains-sms-email-spam-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/91455-da-explains-sms-email-spam-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"DA explains SMS, email &#8220;spam&#8221; campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance (<a title=\"DA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/431011-DA-Democratic-Alliance\">DA<\/a>) said that it sent \u201cregister to win\u201d bulk emails and SMSs to email addresses and mobile numbers obtained from canvassing efforts by ground structures across the country, as well as from consumer databases.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last week thousands of South Africans received multiple email and SMS messages from DA leader <a title=\"Helen Zille\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/407121-Helen-Zille\">Helen Zille<\/a> encouraging them to register to vote in next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Some people did not take kindly to this SMS and email spam, lashing out against the DA through online media channels.<\/p>\n<p>However, the DA feels that it is the right thing to do. \u201cBy far, the majority of feedback to our e-mails and SMSes has been positive with people appreciating the reminders,\u201d said DA CEO <a title=\"Jonathan Moakes\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/573853-Jonathan-Moakes\">Jonathan Moakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moakes explained that this registration weekend is an important opportunity for South Africans to register to exercise their right to vote in next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it important to remind people of this opportunity,\u201d said Moakes.<\/p>\n<p>Many people questioned where the DA sources the email addresses and mobile numbers from to which it sent these messages.<\/p>\n<p>Moakes said that the e-mail addresses and mobile numbers were \u201csourced from contact details obtained from canvassing efforts by ground structures across the country as well as from consumer databases\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what the DA\u2019s view is on companies which send spam emails and SMSes to users, he said that \u201cthe DA is a political party and not a company\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the DA SMS, email marketing campaign<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"DA SMS, email spam backlash\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/91445-da-sms-email-spam-backlash.html\"><strong>DA SMS, email spam backlash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DA SMS spam\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/564801-DA-SMS-spam\"><strong>DA SMS spam discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DA explains where it got the mobile numbers and email addresses from to which it sent \u201cregister to vote\u201d messages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8999,35,5730],"class_list":["post-91455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-da","tag-headline","tag-helen-zille"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91481,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91455\/revisions\/91481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}