Jim Skamarakas

10 reasons to never do business with Radware. So I get this piece of targeted SPAM a few weeks back.

From: Dave Hubbard [mailto:return@outbox.co.il]
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:40 PM
To: Jim Skamarakas
Subject: A Message from Dave Hubbard

Chris McCleary suggested that we contact you regarding some of the solutions Radware offers. As a leader in both the Security and Application Networking marketplaces, he believes that our products would be of interest to you and your company.

It is clear that every day new and more sophisticated security attacks are threatening business continuity, cost effective operations and scalability. Avoiding business disruption is becoming increasingly difficult.

Radware has an innovative set of security solutions including best of breed intrusion prevention systems that can ensure mission critical applications are 100% available and perform at their peak. Our solutions can be deployed throughout the enterprise, ensuring end to end coverage from the branch to the datacenter. Radware’s operations are global in scope and we have an impressive customer list. Please see the link below for a brief executive overview.

I would be grateful if you would help facilitate a meeting with the key folks on your team who have responsibility for security and/or application networking. I will have someone from Radware follow up with you to arrange a mutually convenient date and time to meet.

Thanks in advance for the opportunity to present the Radware story. I know it will be time well spent for your team and your company.

http://www.radware.com/content/document.asp?_v=about&document=6068

Best Regards,

Dave Hubbard
President, Radware Inc.
201.785.3252

Ahh yes, my good friend and life long buddy Chris McCleary. Unfortunately, I do not know Chris McCleary, never heard of him before, and if he did know me, he would know that I do not have a job at my company in the IT department. So I send off this response email to Dave Hubbard:

From: Jim Skamarakas
Sent: Tue 9/6/2005 4:15 PM
To: Mailer
Subject: RE: A Message from Dave Hubbard

Dave,

Who asked you to contact me?

Thanks,

Jim

Now did I contact Dave at his direct address, no. Dave is a SPAM mailer, so his email to me, btw notice the lack of opt out and such, came from a generic response address. So how did Dave respond? Why with this email from a cron at Radware:

From: Intaz Hazratalie [mailto:IntazH@Radware.com]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 12:30 PM
To: Jim Skamarakas
Subject: RE: A Message from Dave Hubbard

Hi Jim,

Dave Hubbard asked me to contact you. Chris McCleary is one of our board members who thought your company would be interested in the solutions Radware offers.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Intaz Hazratalie
Inside Sales Team Leader
Radware, Inc.
Tel (407) 656-4006
Cell (201) 406-8831
Fax (407) 656-3305

http://www.radware.com

 

Confidentiality note: This message, and any attachments to it, contains privileged/confidential information of RADWARE Ltd./RADWARE Inc. and may not be disclosed, used, copied, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from RADWARE. If you are not the intended recipient, delete the message and any attachments from your system without reading or copying it, and kindly notify the sender by e-mail. Thank you.

 

Again your company. Here Radware continues to appear reputable, when in fact they are just a company violating a few laws in NJ, FL, and federal, with their SPAM mailings. So Intaz works in the Orlando area, must be a call center person handling these SPAM responses. How should we handle her response? Like this:

From: Jim Skamarakas
Sent: Mon 9/12/2005 1:04 PM
To: Intaz Hazratalie
Subject: RE: A Message from Dave Hubbard

And would you be so kind as to provide me with Chris McCleary’s direct contact information. I would like to personally refresh our long time friendship and all the good times we have had together.

Thanks,

Jim

 

And the response? Nothing of course. SPAMers try and hide. Let’s add Dave Hubbard’s email address to the next response. BTW, all messages were sent with the complete email thread. I shortened it here for your reading benefit.

From: Jim Skamarakas
Sent: Thu 9/15/2005 10:19 AM
To: Intaz Hazratalie
Cc: return@outbox.co.il
Subject: RE: A Message from Dave Hubbard

Intaz,

Any update?

So she did reply and tell me she sent my email along to Chris. What a bad liar even in an email Intaz turned out to be. And there you have my reasons not to do business with Radware.

Any employees of Radware, especially Chris McCleary are encouraged to send me a response to this incident and explain your companies ethics and behaviour. I will gladly share it with everyone.

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