Like most people I get a bit of spam in my email, even after GMail’s mostly-excellent filter has done its work. Most of these are at least polite enough to have an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom, and they pretty much always work.
Centric Events, on the other hand, keep sending my their rubbish. They shtick is to sell lunches with sporting celebrities at £2000+VAT per table. I have no idea what made them ever think that I would be interested in doing such a thing. But I do know that there is no “unsubscribe” link in their emails, and that they have ignored at least one email asking them to stop spamming me.
So I am pretty sure that what they are doing is illegal, and I know it’s immoral. Dear Centric: STOP IT.
I hope you’re clicking the “report spam” button in gmail. That’s how their filters learn, benefiting everyone on the system. (Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on gmail, and this comment is unrelated to my job)
Yes, I am. But obviously the learning is cumulative, and doesn’t take effect immediately. (I will probably make a filter to deal with these messages, but I would much rather not have to.)
Hit up ebay or dig through your attic, pick up a modem; any baud rate will do, but bonus points for 2400bps or 300bps with their silken connection sounds (or the HST higher speed ones with the PONG noise..)
2) Wardial their phone number 24-7, whenever your phone is not in use. You know how the phone spammers like ot argue they can call our lines.. they’re public .. well, works both ways.
3) If they call you on it, troll them on which celebrity they can set you up with; bonus points if oyu can score Angelina Jolie and stand her up
4) There is a linux program, from eyars ago (I forget which), that has a database of spoken phrases.. you can sue it to wardial or receive spam calls and engage in poor conversations with people, to tie them up.
5) I’m not serious, but tempting, no?
I just got this message from Peter Gill, Sales Manager for Centrica:
Am I being very stupid? I can’t for the life of me see an unsubscribe link at the bottom of that email. Can anyone?
My response to Peter:
Further bulletins as events warrant.
You’re not being stupid…just the victim of poor design!
The link is under the Facebook/Twitter buttons
The blue on black background is really hard to see
Are you sure? I blew it up to 400% and still couldn’t make out anything that looks much like “unsubscribe”. I suppose the last work could be it.
Yep..it says “Click this link to unsubscribe”
Totally agree it’s near impossible to read