I do the same thing. I use one domain name email account as a "dump all" with a prefix based on the site I am emailing. I received an email today from the Chrysler/Jeep site using the prefix "Sirius". It was the email account I set up with sirius radio 3 years ago. It tells me where the spam is coming from and who to block. Rat B's!

The address they used for me was only at Fotomind, so I was/am pretty steamed about that.  They close the door and sell our info.

Well - I am being regularly encouraged to:

a) get a fake rolex watch
b) get my penis enlarged
c) buy shares in a gold mine
d) send my bank account number somewhere because someone wishes to send me money blah blah blah...
e) some other stuff I can't remember

All goes to the bin right away (well, I am kind of pondering over b) and d) )
 

And - in addition - my iStock account got cleared out somehow. It says $0.0 - anyone noticed anything similiar ?

And - in addition - my iStock account got cleared out somehow. It says $0.0 - anyone noticed anything similiar ?

Yes, me too

Account balance:     $0.00 USD

I'm not registered at Fotomind so I don't think it's them, unless Fotomind is affiliated with another agency.

I just received 2 iSyndica emails at my very specific Fotomind email addresses.  Why would iSyndica be emailing me at email addresses used only for Fotomind?

From the Fotomind terms of use agreement that people acknowledged when they signed up.

Privacy Policy

Fotomind will never share your personal information with any third party.

Did they? 

Without a doubt!  That is why I was steaming.

I got the spam from Syndica too on my email only used for sites. I marked them as "spam" to Yahoo, and my personal rule is never to buy from or even look at spammers. They have an unsubscribe link but I want to be paid for the 2 minutes it takes me steaming and unsubscribe, so I just mark them as "spam". If enough people do it, it comes in the spam database of Yahoo and it automatically goes in the spam folder for everybody. Not sure of course if it's from FM, but that email was spam-free till 2 weeks ago.

I just closed my hotmail account this evening .. same account for like 8 years or more and lately I've been getting tons of crap .. today I got 60 scam emails ... FROM MYSELF !!!! LOL .. I went over to the yahoo side.

LOL, there is so many ways I could respond to that shady character etc .....

If you ever do another venture in the future... I would suggest rather than sharing info with someone like iSyndica (whom I love, BTW), you should instead send emails directly yourself first with a paragraph stating that the email is from you and second making the offer for artists to save their portfolio on iSyndica rather than losing it.

If you ever do another venture in the future...

Thank you for the suggestion. However there won't be any other venture in the future, since this is the path we have chosen to help protect our contributor portfolios.

Fotomind admits that they broke the contract.

Please read our previous post entirely to help you understand why we didn't broke the contract terms. Skipping most of the post and citing parts of the text that seem convenient to you doesn't help.

Hey guys,

We should probably have made an appearance on this thread sooner, or even boasted about it, only, see, we're not really "just" out to get something for ourselves and the usual tendency is to take any company post as self-serving marketing spam.  Thus our silence so far on the matter.

What happened with Fotomind?  "Selling" your e-mail address I feel is a bit of a strong statement.  The truth of things is that Fotomind had thousands of photographers - me personally among them - with portfolios that would disappear and commission balances left unpaid.  We just felt it was sad and, while Fotomind's position on the matter was clearly understandable, not exactly right.

So we talked with them and offered to "take the debt" on unpaid commissions and provide the convenience to their contributors to transfer their portfolio to iSyndica where they could dispatch it to over 50 other agencies currently available on our network.

We felt, as Fotomind did, that making this offer was far from inappropriate and shared the work of making this happen.  In retrospect it would probably have been better indeed if Fotomind had sent that e-mail themselves.  Lesson learned.  Apologies if you felt abused, that was certainly not the intention.

Here is the bottom-line:
 - This was a contextual mailing only: your email addresses have not been added to our mailing list (and I do the same thing as you: use a different e-mail address for everything I sign up for, so I'm quite sensitive to the matter as well)
 - IF - and only IF - you do care for it, you can contact Fotomind before Monday is out and ask them to transfer your portfolio and credit balance.  You don't have to sign up for a paid account and can use our free plan or trial to test us out - marketing pitch warning: and yes, if you haven't tried us out yet, maybe you should; we have thousands of users who have seen their earnings significantly increase by getting an easier ability to distribute through our network, some of them by orders of magnitude.  Hey, don't take our word for it: ask around, that's all I can say.
 - IF you do transfer your portfolio and have a balance, it will be available to you as CASH on your affiliate account, and then in minutes you can sync up your transferred portfolio to other agencies you haven't tried yet, or agencies where you might not have sent those items.

I hope that helps clarify the situation and apologize the reception of this offer was perceived differently than intended.

We are currently in the process of transferring hundreds of accounts and are happy to help some of our existing users recover their commissions through this "debt transfer" and welcome new users on our platform.  We expect the transfer to be completed by Tuesday this week.  For existing users, all imported images will be labeled with "Fotomind" and marked as "Approved" in your syndication roaster (though the Fotomind channel will eventually be removed later in the week - reporting will still remain available).

Thank you for your attention.

Best Regards,

SC - iSyndica