"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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I sign up at (say) BestBuy to get their monthly specials via Email. Three
weeks later (and about a hundred or two spams later) I get an Email from
announcing special sales (and having links with
redirect parts) at BestBuy and having an unsubscribe link that goes to
.

Is it really from Best Buy?

Probably not. But maybe. Retailers are not very bright either.

Unfortunately, that email might *have* been from BestBuy. I received a
similar sort of advertising from my bank, filled with URLs that linked back
to some third-party site. None linked to my bank.

I contacted my bank to ask them if the email was legitimate, and IT WAS,
amazingly enough. They had hired some company to handle their advertising,
and all of the web traffic goes through that company's domain, rather than
through my bank's domain.

I explained to them why email representing them needed to have links to
THEIR web site, not someone else's. I'm not sure if they got the concept
though. I had myself removed from their advertising mailing list, so I
haven't gotten any email from them again.

Pete