Does Mail.com send out "come back to us" emails?

drew · 22 Jun 2011, 03:30 AM

Or is that some scammers pretending to be an official mail?

Now when them are so intimately related to GMX? why would them need to send out

Come back to us emails?

GMX does not do such and I ahve not used them either for the same long period.
Poor email providers. So few use them that them have to chase users?

xmailer · 22 Jun 2011, 04:27 AM

I received the following message to the alternate email for my lone existing mail.com account today. As far as I can tell, it's legitimate. I assume they're sending it to inform their older mail.com users of the migration to GMX, and of course, for adverising purposes -- which I assume we've likely agreed to in their TOS.

Quote:

Subject: Come back to check out the new and improved mail.com!
mail.com Mail <service@mail.com> Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Reply-To: service[AT]mail.com
To: [My alternate non-mail.com email address]

Revive your improved mail.com account now!

Hello [My Name],

Do you remember your mail.com email address?

[my user name] AT mail.com

We upgraded your account with an improved interface and great new features! Don't miss out and rejoin the millions of excited customers. Simply go to mail.com and log in to check it out!

go to www.mail.com

If you forgot your password, don't worry! You can get it back here.

On top of our successful email service, many new features and an improved user interface are waiting for you. We're sure you're going to love it. Try it out today...

and see what we have in store for you:
- One easy-to-use interface, that works like your desktop client
- Mail Collector: with a few clicks check out all your other email accounts
- State-of-the-art spam and virus protection
- Improved handling with attachments

As a special treat, you get the chance to win an Apple iPad 2 *!!! Just check back in at mail.com and it could be that you are soon the lucky owner of an Apple iPad 2!

To enter the sweepstake and win an Apple iPad 2, simply send an email from your mail.com account to win.an.iPad[AT]mail.com! The lucky winners will then be notified via their mail.com address during the next three months.

We are waiting for you!

Good luck and kind regards,

Your mail.com team

Just what I needed -- a third useless GMX account. But then, I haven't made any use of the mail.com address for many years anyway, since it has been a long time since that service/domain was in competent hands. (Although the short time it was with AOL was probably the most competently it was being handled in at least close to a decade.)

jdtaylor · 25 Jun 2011, 06:45 AM

I've recieved similar ones which are legimtate from them as it's all coming from the mail servers.

King Of Email · 27 Jun 2011, 02:57 PM

Mail.com wants new and old users so they can shove inbox ads in their faces, just like AOL did. I use Ad Block Plus anyway, so I don't see that much. As for winning an iPad 2, without flash, it ain't doing me any good. I just want my old circa 1999 Mail.com account back even at the reduced storage, please.

sheprd · 28 Jun 2011, 11:07 PM

I received a similar email from mail dot com

trott3r · 28 Jun 2011, 11:12 PM

I have recieve an email as well recently but the weird thing is that i have already reactivated my old account some weeks earlier!

Unless they have quick kick offs due to lack of usage?

Martin

22 Jun 2011, 03:30 AM	#1
drew The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,626	Does Mail.com send out "come back to us" emails? Or is that some scammers pretending to be an official mail? Now when them are so intimately related to GMX? why would them need to send out Come back to us emails? GMX does not do such and I ahve not used them either for the same long period. Poor email providers. So few use them that them have to chase users?

27 Jun 2011, 02:57 PM	#4
King Of Email Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 622	Mail.com Mail.com wants new and old users so they can shove inbox ads in their faces, just like AOL did. I use Ad Block Plus anyway, so I don't see that much. As for winning an iPad 2, without flash, it ain't doing me any good. I just want my old circa 1999 Mail.com account back even at the reduced storage, please.

25 Jun 2011, 06:45 AM	#3
jdtaylor Master of the @ Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,693	I've recieved similar ones which are legimtate from them as it's all coming from the mail servers.

28 Jun 2011, 11:07 PM	#5
sheprd The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: VA, USA Posts: 2,789	I received a similar email from mail dot com

28 Jun 2011, 11:12 PM	#6
trott3r Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 10	I have recieve an email as well recently but the weird thing is that i have already reactivated my old account some weeks earlier! Unless they have quick kick offs due to lack of usage? Martin