Subject line: “You’ve been added as a contact on Cotap”
Email text: “Cotap is a secure texting app for teams. View the [company name] directory. [link]
“Are you using WhatsApp, GroupMe, or iMessage to text your coworkers? See why Cotap is better for work.”
Yeah, no, this is spam, and it sounds like quite a few people are getting them.
Cotap was formed by former Yammer people… there’s speculation that when they left Yammer, they took a copy of the Yammer email list with them.
Beware of the @CoTap spam emails. Nobody invited you. Pretty shameful way to get people to use a product… #emailspam #spam
— Andrew Hammond (@andrhamm) April 10, 2015
@andrhamm Do you use Yammer as well? I wonder if there's a connection between using Yammer and getting spam from the ex-Yammer @cotap guys.
— Klaus Silberbauer (@silberbauer) April 15, 2015
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@andrhamm Very interesting. The email-address used by Cotap was the one I used for Yammer. And its not registered anywhere else.
— Klaus Silberbauer (@silberbauer) April 15, 2015
In any case, don’t fall for their trap. Don’t do business with spammers.
In fact, why on earth would you trust your business messaging to spammers?