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Originally Posted by jimstrong
> Oh, and BTW, welcome to the forum
Thanks a lot! 
The more I look at this, and despite what ntl told me, I'm thinking that this is a valid trial (as you said), but that it has been put together in a way that makes a customer quite suspicious:-
- the email gives no indication that it is genuinely from ntl (the "return path" is the only sign - "do_not_reply@ntlworld.com" - and that can easily be faked. The originating email address is 20060906095117.65BB42030AF@blubber.cableinet.net. The number is not suspicious, but the blubber bit is!! 
- it is not signed off by anybody, not even "The ntl team" - it just ends "Thank you"
- the link sends you to a domain that is still being processed (according to a "WHOIS" query.
- the original telephone request asks you for a non-ntl email address - why?
...and once your concerns are aroused you start to read all sorts of things into every (possibly innocent) paragraph!!
I'll look into it further and post the outcome here. Might take a day or two as I'm away from base tomorrow.
Jim |
Nice
The "blubber" bit could be the server, but I think your comments are fair. I agree that customers should be suspicious about emails inviting them to go here, or click a link there.
I know though that ntl use the esmaker.com service to run polls and surverys.
The other point to mention is that google are inviting domain owners to trail their webmail service in connection with hostmaster domains, so this trial may be in conjunction with that, as pointed out in a previous post in this thread.