Business e-mail address in Vietnam

Confusion in a bunch of spam (spam) referrals provide millions of email addresses for advertising. Many websites specializing in this type of service are also born and attract businesses and individuals who want to promote online.

Currently, forms of online advertising through placing banners and logos on websites with large traffic are of interest to marketing. However, the number of customers accessing the advertised products and services has not been clearly defined. Therefore, the service of sending e-mail directly to customers with financial capability, by region and industry, has strongly attracted those responsible for promoting the company's products and services. to customers.

The advantage of this form is fast, cheaper than promoting on traditional media and quite suitable to introduce the business fields of computers, electronic goods, phones, souvenirs, consulting services. design, introduce restaurants, coffee and places to play . The main customers of this service are the marketing department in companies and online business objects. Even some website operators choose this service with the desire to increase the number of access members.

Mr. Le Hoang Vu, owner of a service that provides 1.2 million e-mail addresses and email software for VND 350,000, said: " Sending an e-mail will help those who really have need to know the supplier of products and services Some customers do not have demand but also do not want to quickly delete the information sent, so that when needed can contact ".

These services will provide lists from several hundred thousand to several million e-mail addresses of businesses and individuals, can categorize customer objects and ensure they do not overlap. All of those addresses can fit in one CD.

" We have a program that pulls out all mailboxes from websites, averaging about 4,000-5,000 e-mail addresses a day. This data will be updated and categorized continuously by industry like tourism, hotels, informatics . ", Mr. Tien Phuc, the owner of a service providing 7 million e-mail addresses, said. "My customers belong to all subjects, from big informatics companies to health services, newly opened health ".

Mr. Le Hoang Vu added: " There are many ways to get e-mail addresses. I use a software to scan all websites in Vietnam so I can guarantee a very high level of accuracy and the mailbox owner belongs to These are the e-mail addresses that are active and the majority are e-mail addresses and most are tencongty.com, tencongty.com.vn, hn.vnn.vn, hcm.vnn.vn, fpt .vn, hotmail.com, yahoo.com . ". However, according to a service owner whose e-mail is quangcaotructuyen ., selling 6 million mail addresses for 100 USD, this list is accumulated from forum hacks, websites of businesses, personal.

Currently, most of these services support customers with optional e-mail software, in the form of text, html, audio, and image files, with the speed of sending 1,000-2,000 addresses each. minute. In addition, the service of updating e-mail addresses, providing software to search for e-mail with prices from 100,000 to 500,000 VND is also promoted quite aggressively.

However, this type of spam advertising has always been strongly opposed by the majority of Internet users, because in addition to causing inconvenience, the potential risk of this virus is quite high. In addition, the fact that forums and websites are constantly being hacked leaks personal information makes many e-mail users afraid.

Ms. My Chi, a sales person, expressed: " It is extremely uncomfortable to wait for an e-mail to receive a notice of new mail, when opened it is a spam offering pharmaceutical drugs like Viagra, not even a dozen other junk e-mails have to be cleaned every day, with content from introducing computer parts stores, tours to selling cheap software anywhere. "

According to Mr. Truong Van Hoang, owner of an Internet shop in District 8 (HCMC), spam is often noticed by attractive titles, erotic images or attachments with very strange formats. It is a danger for Internet users who like to explore new things but lack knowledge about computing. " There are some software that allows to block spam but most users do not search and do it themselves ," said Hoang.

It is also because many anti-spam comments that many people want to exploit mailbox owners have been hesitant because of the possibility of adverse effects of online advertising campaign. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tam, owner of a computer store in Go Vap District (HCMC), expressed: " This form allows the easiest access to the audience, the price is very cheap. However, spam is a problem. Uneasy for people using the Internet and promoting with this form has not really assured me, because I also hate spam ".

On the service provider, Mr. Tien Phuc said: " Most customers disagree with spam, but this does not mean refusing access. The promotion is annoying to customers or not. Depending on the content of the information and the words sent, we apologize to the mailbox owner if you are bothered . "

According to Mr. Tien Phuc, this service is completely legal because there is no anti-spam law in Vietnam. However, if sending millions of e-mails from a server at the same time, the chances of being blocked from ISPs will be very high. And dealing with this problem, service providers also quickly designed programs that automatically detect empty hosts to send e-mail.

Ngoc Hang