When are spammers going to catch on…?
This morning I sent a spammer a remove request. Here’s exactly what I said, other than his name removed…
Don’t send me stuff like this. I’m not interested in receiving unsolicited promotional emails. Period. Take care.
His reply was a series of insults and offensive remarks (that I wont repeat here). Then finally an attempt to justify his spamming.
Initially I didn’t report the loser. I had figured it was an individual who didn’t know any better and who would make adjustment if he received a straightforward email request not to send me future spam messages. I was wrong.
So after receiving several rude emails I reported him to his ISP and to the abuse desk of the business opportunity he was promoting. So here’s part of what he had to say after I reported him…
“…I get is this cry baby whining about SPAM> I get hundreds of so called “SPAM†messages every day. I don’t whine about it, or send crybaby letters to their ISP, or to their place of business. I either look at it quickly to see if there is something of use to me there, or I delete it outright if I recognize what it is. I understand how messed up the job market in this country Andre. So I’m very tolerant of people who are trying to make a living marketing online; unlike.”
I’ve seen the “tolerant” line used for justifying tolerance towards race, mixed marriages, religion, and sexual preferences…but this is the first time ever seeing it used as an attempt to justify spamming.
I don’t know. Maybe I’m just ’sensitive’ to spam since I get so much of it:
…no, I don’t think so.
Spamming unsolicited emails to people who don’t want the emails is never ok. It puts you in a bad light and is ineffective; unless you are selling sex or travel services online. For everything else it can take more than one million spam messages sent to get less than 20 orders. In some cases 10 to 15 spam messages to get 10 to 15 responses.
That’s a lot of people ticked off and a lot of bad reputation built against you in exchange for so few orders. There are always more effective ways to market a product or service than to spam people.
Heck with it. I’ve wasted enough words on this lunatic. I’m sure he will never get it.
Disagree? Feel free to shoot me an email. But don’t dare send me spam!