I can’t believe this but it’s true. A colleague of mine received the spam e-mail below the other day from a company that wants us to store all of our passwords, drivers license details, travelers cheque references and other valuable information in their virtual safe.
How can any company that purports to safely and securely look after all our sensitive information have the slightest tiny weeniest bit of credibility, if they are forced to send spam in order to try and drum up some business. Would you trust any of your passwords with them? I sure as hell wouldn’t.
Maybe this is a just new physhing scam!
The company that hosts the spammers web site has been contacted about closing the site down, but so far they appear to have taken no action.
This is the spam e-mail that was received. Unbelievable isn’t it!
FREE online personal disaster recovery - Register today
We all know that it makes sense to protect ourselves in life.
If something goes wrong we can then deal with the consequences.
We buy various different insurances and we lock our front door
when we are away from home. We even wear seatbelts in cars -
well actually we are legally obliged to!Everybody has information that is important. If this information
is lost, most commonly through theft or an accident, the
consequences can be disastrous.Where do you keep a record of your passport number?
Where do you back up your most important files?
4Safe.co.uk gives you FREE online personal disaster recovery.
On one secure and password protected website, you can store all
the information you need to get your life back on track, should
things go wrong.How many times have you lost something at home?
What would you do if you lost your home and everything in it?
4Safe.co.uk enables you to create a Virtual Safe for your most
important possessions. This safe can then be accessed by you -
and only by you - from anywhere in the world.Use the links below to learn more about 4Safe.co.uk. There is
also an online demo that you can view.
° Travel Safe
° File Safe
° Birthday Safe
° Home Safe
4Safe.co.uk is a FREE service. Register today and ensure that you
don’t get caught out should disaster strike.
Signing up could be a greater disaster. 
April 21st, 2005 at 7:16 am
This is not a false site - simply a bad marketing decision; Please see the email that we sent to our hosting company. We are a registered company in England.
If anyone has any concerns please contact me directly at andrew@4Safe.co.uk.
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Dear Paul,
An email company approached us to ask if we would like them to email potential users details of our site. We agreed (much to my regret now) and have received several complaints from users.
I must assure you that the emails have been sent by a third party and not us or the brinkster servers and that in the future we will certainly not be entering into a campaign like this again. Our site has been live for over 1 year now and we have received numerous positive press comments. I am sad to say that this is the first time we have had something happen to us that has not been positive.
Please do ask any one to get in contact with me directly and I will respond to them personally.
Kind regards,
Andrew