I called Terranet almost the next day. They transfered me to
Wassim Abou Rjaily. I told him: "Shou? You are spamming like crazy for your new anti-spam filter, don't you find that a bit ironic?"... Mr. Wassim Abou Rjaily said that yes they sent this "spam", and that if I knew of better "companies" who do the same thing (email advertising) but that are "cleaner", I should email him their names... I told him I'll see. And he sent me his email address.
I sent at least 2 emails to Wassim Abu Rjaily and to all public emails at Terranet. I told him/them that all of us here were very pissed off, because by showing the bad example, they will encourage other businesses to spam also... And it spoils all our little anti-spam efforts here... Terranet are one of the main Lebanon Internet Providers for God's sake! They are suppose to act as a model on the Web! They never ever replied...
I think this SPAM they did can't be a mistake otherwise they'd have replied right away. And at the same time it is almost unbelievable... It was obvious Wassim Abou Rjaily decided to spam, he just wanted the crime to be done as clean as possible... In this forum, we've always said good things about Terranet. Their people used to respond very well to spam alerts. So what happened? Why did they decide to do that? Again, if it was a mistake, then another department would have replied to us right aways with details about this affair. We contacted all emails at Terranet and no one dared to reply anything.
HEY, ALL SPAMMERS & CYBERCRIMINALS OF THE WORLD, COME TO LEBANON! YOU WILL BE HAPPY HERE! (THE FOOD IS NICER THAN IN NIGERIA.)
Just for the records. Here is the quick profile of Mr. Wassim Abou Rjaily. Terranet forwarded me to him when I called because he was in charge of ordering the spam and he sounded very aware of what he did:
Wassim Abou Rjeily (Abou Rjaily)
Network Engineer
Corporate Sales Department
Terranet s.a.l Achrafieh - Lebanon
phone :+961 1 577511
Fax: +961 1 577533
Mobile :+961 3 364096
w.arjaili@terra.net.lb
warjeili@terra.net.lb
wassimar@yahoo.com
shadenys@yahoo.com
Wassim Georges Abou Rjeili (Abou Rjaily) was born on September 16, 1975. Although is born Orthodox, he is the main coordinator for the International Young Catholic Students (Middle-East section). He seems like a very cool person. Modern. Anti-racist. Anti-drugs. Used to be in Zahlé, now in Ashrafieh.
This guy presents himself as a "Sales Engineer". WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Please someone tell me if you know what this means! On his signature it says: "Network Engineer" and then "Sales Department". Frankly I don't get it... What kind of networks does he "engineer" inside the Sales Department...? Maybe this terminology is just another way to say he's some kind of MARKETING SALES EMPLOYEE.
WHAT EVER THIS BOY IS QUALIFIED FOR. I BEG HIM TO SPEND SOME TIME TO COMPLETE HIS FORMATION AND LEARN HOW TO ADVERTISE ONLINE ACCORDING THE BASIC MINIMUM DECENCY... PLEASE MAN, TRY TO GO WORK ABROAD FOR A FEW MONTH AND LEARN THE RULES.
And what about Terranet? Well, they confirmed that Wassim Abou Rjaily did the good thing and they don't feel that SPAMMING is a mistake at all!
And what about Lebanon Internet users? Well, who wants to use the services of an Internet company who sends spam to advertise its new anti-spam filter? As a very wise person said in this forum: "All Lebanese ISP are Trash". It should be written on the first pages of all tourist guides to Lebanon...