Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8083
revenge......
Have had a recruitment agency sending me anything up to 20 job vacancy adverts every day, many of them multiple postings.
I have never signed up to this agency, or am even looking, and it is not a 'sister' company to somebody else.
It comes from a 'no-reply' mail address and despite setting my mail filter to send this to spam they still keep on coming.
Looked them up and sent an email to their 'contact us' address for them to desist. Still keep on coming
For last week I have just been sending them as many emails as I can possibly cram in over a day with simple "remove me from mailing list" in title.
Today I got an email asking me why I keep sending them emails...........er, the clue is in the title
Next step, now I have a specific name, if it doesn't stop, will be to sign them up for 'free mail offers'. I did this to my brother once and his life was hell for next three months with calls, emails and 'free gifts' till he changed email address and phone went anyway. He did get a lot of free womens products including 6 months supply of a well known tampon brand
Any double glazing, life insurance, mortgage protection, accident claim, tec. type companies also suffice and they are very persistent.........
30th Oct 2014 12:41 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72917
Ah, revenge is a dish best served via email.
30th Oct 2014 1:00 pm
Scarab
Member Since: 11 Jun 2011
Location: Hastings
Posts: 1283
Excellent.
I enjoy similar twisted fun on these types of companies. I have the same with a office space company who we used once for a bit of additional space while we re-did our offices, and they wont stop bothering me.
Literally 2-3 emails a day and phone calls once a week all from the same woman. They still come through but I know that she's getting absolutely hounded by many marketing, PPI and Accident claim companies, and also several email subscriptions of a decidedly less tasteful nature.
Will get her added to the freestuff site though - good spot!
30th Oct 2014 1:07 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8083
I put my brother down for works accidents a number of times, you just put scant details about slipping at work and shoulder still hurting a year later and they're after it like a rat up a drainpipe.
I went slightly overboard with him as he really p*ssed me off over something and then just said "bring it on" when I challenged him.
So it was brung.......
Ten minutes on Google for 'free gifts', register once with home address, mobile, home phone, email (home and work) and tick every box offering something, press send and sit back and wait.
That was at 7.00am in the morning, by 9.00am he'd had dozens of calls on his mobile and a dozen or more emails on work email. Still 'giving it large' to me though. By lunch time I had a pathetic text that just read "please stop" However by then it is too late, you can't stop it.
That evening he rang calling me all the names under the sun as his home phone was ringing off the wall. The only thing that saved my bacon was his wife said it was his own fault and he'd got his come-uppance.
The free gifts started coming a week or so later. My sis-in-law was quite pleased with the majority of them
31st Oct 2014 11:40 am
kp
Member Since: 27 May 2011
Location: Sticking the Ex back in the skanks bin
Posts: 2824
ahhh free junk mail!
I have a good use for that and for the metro's that get left around here sometimes
Saves me having to leave the house for it I guess and know someone who will love being signed upto it
And best do it thru tor first though just incase FFRR Owner, very nearly became a D3 owner
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22nd Dec 2014 2:31 am
darrind
Member Since: 04 Jul 2008
Location: In A World of My Own!
Posts: 2863
Ohh that's evil.
A mate of mine gave me a car advert for a month as a joke birthday present around 30 years ago in about 10 publications offering to sell my Classic Lancia for a knock down fee - the phone rang off the wall for 3 months morning noon and night.
Ended up having to get an answerphone to filter all of the calls it was that annoying! Its funny now but wasn't so at the time Must stop buying shiny toys....
22nd Nov 2020 12:19 am
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Member Since: 16 Jul 2007
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1070
Posting an ad for “free black lab puppies” with the perpetrators contact information will make their life a living hell 16 D4 Landmark
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22nd Nov 2020 4:13 am
Erea
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Munster
Posts: 1509
Years ago... before spam email... I kept getting spam texts from a company and by mistake they included a landline once. I rang it over and over and once it was answered at about 7am on a Sunday morning..... let’s just say that that the irate woman that answered promised that once she caught her husband for using the landline I would never get a text again ... 😂
22nd Nov 2020 4:31 am
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Member Since: 03 Jan 2016
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 1263
Top drawe, must remember this can the mods do a sticky👏D3 2.7 Zermatt silver (not another one)
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22nd Nov 2020 1:16 pm
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Location: Dundee, Scotland
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However by then it is too late, you can't stop it.
