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Anyone else get spammed by a mob selling branded coffee mugs very recently?

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  • #16
    A few weeks ago, I started getting mining and industrial tooling product info and catalogue emails from the ferret crowd. Every 4 days or so. It kinda fit with my one of my other interests, woodturning. And I had been searching to carbide tooling info.

    Thing is, they all arrived at an email address that I rarely use (I have several), never ever in web searches and almost solely for personal, private correspondance. So I really was confuzzled how they even knew of it and my full real name !

    And it was a proper b@stard to unsubscribe. It tooks me 7 or 8 goes over a month. I still don't know if I'm unsubscribed from their damn lists. Turns out that they are a sort of info clearing house for a number of similar but unrelated companies.

    Here's the kicker - I googled "email branded mugs" after I read your recent post (crazy, I know) and they were second or third on the list. I never followed the link so I hope I'm not on their lists again.

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    • #17
      Are you signed into Google/Chrome when you do your searches?

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      • #18
        unsubscribe. It tooks me 7 or 8 goes over a month.
        Unsubscribe is the BEST way to get on more lists... they know a human reads that address and it's worth more to the spam market.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
          Are you signed into Google/Chrome when you do your searches?
          Nope. Very careful about that. I have a gmail address too and expect it to cop unwanted crap. But that wasn't the case with the emailed ferret stuff.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Andy View Post
            Unsubscribe is the BEST way to get on more lists... they know a human reads that address and it's worth more to the spam market.
            As a rule I agree, but this is a legit OZ company so subject to our privacy and unsolicited bulk email laws. I don't think they would even admit it was SPAM and are hiding behind the "this is not unsolicited bulk email because either you're an existing customer or you asked us to send this" rule. I think the problem I had with unsubscribe was simply they considered each mailing was for a related but distinctly different operation or service and I had to unsubscribe to each one. This multiple list approach seems pretty common in the media service world. I've even seen the multiple list-multiple unsubscribe approach from travel agents. I ignored the first two "ferrets" until I saw they weren't going away unless I made a move.

            Different story with something that comes from outside OZ, offering all sorts of pharmacologicals, stock tips or whatever. As you said, most of them don't want to sell you anything. They're often looking for their next live target to inadvertently agree to host a Spam-bot.

            Shame you can't shred then compost them like actual junk mail. Might be useful then.

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            • #21
              I copped one today for someone pushing Vietnamese coffee, by the Metric Tonne.

              The email address it hit is only used for one forum, which happens to be coffee related. Ah, spammers if only there was an large enough grinder to shove 'em through.

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