Booz Allen Hamilton sends out SPAM emails?

Posted by Jim on April 21, 2008

I am always shocked at the stunts these people do for their spam email. It is lame and sad. And sent to an email address that has never opted in for these emails. Why does Cheryl hide behind a gmail address? Is it not for real? It has a serious lack of credibility since it comes not from a Booz Allen address, nor a George Washington address. Shocking that a company as large and well known as Booz Allen would hire someone of the low brow sort to send spam email from a gmail account. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and see if I get a response from her or her company.

From: Jim Skamarakas
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:46 PM
To: CG_Appleby@bah.com; bulger_michael@bah.com; Joseph_Garner@bah.com; cheryl_steele@bah.com
Subject: FW: Interactive Leadership Program

Hello,
I am sure that you are all shocked to find someone using the presitgeous name of Booz Allen Hamilton to sell SPAM email offers to total strangers for programs. Let alone sending out SPAM email in violation of Federal laws against such SPAM email. It hardly does good to have a member of your senior staff doing something so stupid. Which is why I can only believe that this is not being done by Cheryl, but by someone stealing her identity and in the process causing damage to your long standing reputation.

In either case, I am brining this to your attention. I am sure you don’t have an idiot spam emailer trashing your company name with spam email. If that is the case, I would be shocked. Of course, why would someone educated enough to come work for BAH, be stupid enough to send out SPAM email. BTW, you will notice that it violates almost every aspect of the federal CAN-SPAM law. Staggering. And before Cheryl back peddles and says I opted in, keep this in mind. The email address used was never used before, it is an alias that has been sold and used by numerous spam outfits in the past few weeks. We know the address has been purchased and never opted -in.

I wish you luck in finding out who is conducting this campaign and damaging your name and talking appropriate action to correct this before they continue with their garbage.
Regards,
Jim

From: Jim Skamarakas
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:29 PM
To: Cheryl Steele
Subject: RE: Interactive Leadership Program
Cheryl,
I am not sure. Are you a spammer, an idiot, or a liar? You work for Booz Allen and advertise it in this email but don’t use a work email address to send out this email? Should I assume you don’t work for Booz Allen? Or that you do not have Booz Allen permission to advertise their relationship to this work effort. Som clarity would be appreciated.

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From: Cheryl Steele [dc.cheryl.steele@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 10:19 AM
To: dc.cheryl.steele@gmail.com
Subject: Interactive Leadership Program
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