I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to write
a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with "How did
we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere by the week.
My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone calls. It's irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails such
as receipts, guarantees and the like.
Ed Cryer wrote:
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to
write a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with
"How did we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere
by the week. My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone
calls. It's irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails
such as receipts, guarantees and the like.
Don't buy from those retailers. If you must, don't give them your email
or phone number(s)
It's often quicker to drive to your GP than ring.
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to write
a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with "How did
we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere by the week.
My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone calls. It's irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails such
as receipts, guarantees and the like.
Ed
but then I'd cut out wanted emails such as receipts, guarantees and the
like.
On 21/02/2024 13:05, Ed Cryer wrote:
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to
write a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with
"How did we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere
by the week. My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone
calls. It's irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails
such as receipts, guarantees and the like.
Ed
Yes, that's how it works these days.
Don't bother, delete them.
Fokke
Create an email for that retailer using temp email or yahoo allow you
to create an additional email with argos in the name
delete after use
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to write
a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with "How did
we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere by the week.
My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone calls. It's irritating.
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to write
a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with "How did
we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere by the week.
My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone calls. It's irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails such
as receipts, guarantees and the like.
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:05:41 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to write
a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with "How did
we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere by the week.
My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone calls. It's
irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails such
as receipts, guarantees and the like.
If it's a real company, there's usually an Unsubscribe
link at the bottom of such mails.
Granted, that doesn't always work. I had a subscription
to /Astronomy/ magazine a few years ago, and Kalmbach
Media keeps sending me marketing messages not just for
/Astronomy/ but for other enterprises of theirs. When I
click the Unsubscribe link, I get a web page that says
I have no subscriptions at Kalmbach Media. They have a
customer service phone number, but though the rep
promised to stop the emails she didn't.
But that's unusual. Most real businesses stopped
sending me solicitations to review after I clicked
their Unsubscribe.
You could always give a low rating and explain in your
review that it's because they keep spamming you with
requests for a review.
Stan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:05:41 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:
Have you ever had the telephone calls where, when you answer, they hang up?
I have one female who rings me and asks for Mr Taylor, or Mr Bright, or
Mr Gigglesworth; I say he's not here and hang up.
The other day she asked for Mr Taylor, so I shouted behind me "Mr
Taylor, you're wanted on the phone". The caller stayed on the line until
I hung up.
These calls come from different numbers across the UK.
What is going on here? Whatever it is, it makes me jumpy and suspicious
of a whole host of possible scams.
Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2024-02-21 19:56, Ed Cryer wrote:
Stan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:05:41 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:
Have you ever had the telephone calls where, when you answer, they
hang up?
Robocall.
There are two explanations.
They have a bunch of humans. There is a machine making calls. If
nobody answers, the machine goes to the next number in the list. When
someone answers, it is passed fast to a human. If there is no human
available, it hangs down silently. Not even a “Sorry!”
The rationale is not having the humans iddle a single second. Costs
money to them.
The other explanation is also a robocall, which is testing for a human
presence at the other end, find out when there is somebody home or not.
I have one female who rings me and asks for Mr Taylor, or Mr Bright,
or Mr Gigglesworth; I say he's not here and hang up.
The other day she asked for Mr Taylor, so I shouted behind me "Mr
Taylor, you're wanted on the phone". The caller stayed on the line
until I hung up.
These calls come from different numbers across the UK.
This one is peculiar.
What is going on here? Whatever it is, it makes me jumpy and
suspicious of a whole host of possible scams.
Never say "yes".
I suspect they're not hardened criminals; they're just poor saps who've
been offered a job when there's no other. Somewhere in the poor world.
They get given a list of telephone numbers, call them and record whether
they answer or not.
If they answer, it's a valid number. And that gets added to a "valid
number list", which is sold to spammers and scammers. But the poor sap
doing the groundwork isn't sufficiently savvy to know what's going on.
It's a moral dilemma. Because, if you shout at and abuse the poor sap
front man, you're abusing someone who's already being abused and exploited.
Carlos E.R. wrote:
[quoted text muted]
suspicious of a whole host of possible scams.
Never say "yes".
I suspect they're not hardened criminals; they're just poor saps who've
been offered a job when there's no other. Somewhere in the poor world.
They get given a list of telephone numbers, call them and record whether
they answer or not.
It's a moral dilemma. Because, if you shout at and abuse the poor sap
front man, you're abusing someone who's already being abused and exploited.
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to write
a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with "How did
we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere by the week.
My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone calls. It's >irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails such
as receipts, guarantees and the like.
On 2024-02-21 13:11, Graham J wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
I don't mean scam or spam mail. I mean the ones that retailers and
others send.
I buy something at Currys or Argos, and they pester me for ages to
write a review. I shop at M&S, show my Sparks card, get pestered with
"How did we do?" This How-did-we-do practice is spreading everywhere
by the week. My GP's reception is using it now, online and after phone
calls. It's irritating.
I know I could use spam filters, but then I'd cut out wanted emails
such as receipts, guarantees and the like.
As these posts are machine made, they usually have a fixed pattern, in
the from and/or subject fields, so you can create an exact filter on
them to move to a separate folder (I never automatically delete, just in >case).
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