{"id":98150,"date":"2014-03-10T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=98150"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:52:00","slug":"da-e-mail-spam-complaint-the-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/98150-da-e-mail-spam-complaint-the-plot-thickens.html","title":{"rendered":"DA e-mail spam complaint – the plot thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Alliance (DA) was recently accused of sending unsolicited e-mails<\/strong><\/a> to an address listed on the Direct Marketing Association of Southern Africa\u2019s (DMASA\u2019s) do not contact (DNC) list.<\/p>\n

Questions were also raised as to how the DA got the e-mail address which the owner said was only used for the DMASA do not contact (DNC) list.<\/p>\n

Barnie Kruger, the DA\u2019s executive director of provinces and voter relationship management, said that they have a database of contact details, including e-mail addresses that they receive from various sources including direct canvassing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have investigated where we obtained the e-mail address: dmasa@******.com and can confirm that this e-mail address is associated with Brendon McLean (ID number available),\u201d said Kruger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis email address was provided to us by this individual on the 22nd of November 2011 via a telephonic conversation in which we conducted voter canvassing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brendon McLean responded saying that he would never have given this e-mail address to the DA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI use the domain of the website hosting the signup form as an alias contact address. For example, if I signed up to mybroadband.co.za, I might use mybroadband@******.com,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember or keep or a record of these e-mail addresses – I do this to track when a company leaks my e-mail address. So it is inconceivable that I gave the DA dmasa@******.com as my contact address during a telephonic interview.\u201d<\/p>\n

McLean said that if he did ever hand over an e-mail address “it would have been one of my real e-mail addresses. I only use aliases on web forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DA said that they will gladly remove McLean\u2019s e-mail address from their system if it is requested.<\/p>\n

More on DA spam complaints<\/h3>\n

DA explains SMS, email \u201cspam\u201d campaign<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DA SMS, email spam backlash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DA SMS spam discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DA said that a consumer who complained about spam gave them his email voluntarily, but he said it is simply not true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":97839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24002,8999,1293,24000,35],"class_list":["post-98150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-barnie-kruger","tag-da","tag-dmasa","tag-dmasa-dnc","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98150"}],"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=98150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98278,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98150\/revisions\/98278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}