Posts Tagged ‘spam’

New Joys

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Got some snail-mail spam today, 2 different attempts to sell me mortgage insurance, both with clear if tiny denials of association with the actual lender, and a 3rd party bi-weekly program, which is funny since my lender already provides the service for free. I’m sure more junk is on the way.

And it turns out I can hear my neighbors stereo perfectly well, both from a reflection of the treble range off his deck wall and into my bedroom window, and of the bass range through the walls. In hiser defense, it was at midday with construction noise going on outside. They haven’t kept me up at night yet.

Still between this and the hardwood floor above, whenever I do end up looking for the next place, there’s got to be some way to spend a couple nights at the place before anything is committed to.

Good job eyefi [hamburger]

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Someone is playing extra stupid at EyeFi today. They send out 3 different spam emails over the course of 15 minutes, their unsubscribe page is broken, and the contact email address they have listed on the website bounces.

Honest in a fashion

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Noticed a referrer link from a presumable link farm that at least had the decency to put the word farm in their domain name. I doubt it will make google think any better of them, but kudos for trying I suppose.

No Escape from Xbox Live hell

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Gah, stupid microsoft.

I canceled my xbox live account months ago, in response to their homophobic practices.  Today I get spam from them letting me know about some new pricing model they are coming out with.  The mail basically says “yeah, there’s no unsubscribe option because you gave us money once, so the law can’t stop us, so we aren’t going to even let you ask us to stop, screw you!”.

Yeah, that totally makes me rethink my plans on never subscribing to xbox live again.  Not.

UPDATE:  The xbox-live-support-by-email-tech suggested calling 1-800-469-9269

Funcom is to be avoided

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

What is the deal with supposedly legitimate companies and their inability to provide a working system for unsubscribing from their spam?  Is the idea that somehow, if they make it too hard to unsubscribe from updates about a game I haven’t played in years, I’ll change my mind about how boring their game is?  Well congratulations jerkfaces, I’ll just tell google to start blocking your emails for everyone.  I noticed that when I mark a funcom email as spam, google doesn’t offer a “these folks have a legit unsubscribe system, are you sure you don’t want to try using it first?” link, which suggests I’m not the only person whose gotten annoyed with their craptacular system.

Are you a game developer considering a publishing/distribution house?  Run far away from Funcom; I won’t buy any game from them ever again, and I discourage all gamers from buying from them either, at least until they de-scuzz-ify their email subscription system.

Gmail’s new unsubscribe feature

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

I’m hoping that they are planning on using their massive google-powers to track how often those unsubscribes end up generating more spam, rather than less.

STAF registration == spam overload?

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

So, recently at work, I was tasked with upgrading 39 different boxes from STAF 3.2.3 to 3.3.1. Being a conscientious geek, I filled out the registration section of the installs with my work email address. Ever since, that address has been bombarded with spam. It seems highly likely that the STAF registration system has been hijacked by a spammer. IBM should be ashamed, but it is an ‘open source’ project now, so they have plausible deniability. It wasn’t malice on their part, just incompetence, I’m sure.

ESL spam

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

“we have a special Eastern gift for you”

Some People Aim Low

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

I keep getting wordpress spam trackback attempts from someone trying to sell a drug “no perscription”.  The strange thing is, it’s not for a drug that you’d need to avoid geting a scrip for; it’s cheap, available in bulk generic, and has zero abuse potential.  It seems incredibly stupid.

Avoid CDConnection.com This Christmas…

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

I wouldn’t place an order with them, if I were you.  They must be days away from going out of business; they’ve spammed me twice this week.  The first emails I’ve gotten from them in literally ten years.  I feel for them, before amazon came along, I used to buy all sorts of crazy music thru them.

Never again, now, though.  No matter how worthy your cause, spam is always wrong.  I wouldn’t have minded the first email quite so much, if it hadn’t been followed by the basically-a-dupe-second so pointlessly soon.  Now you must pay for your crimes against humanity.