Very long ago a Finnish cellphone carrier Saunalahti tried to force us a deal where the promised plan prices included receiving ads.
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Very long ago a Finnish cellphone carrier Saunalahti tried to force us a deal where the promised plan prices included receiving ads. If I recall correctly, they wanted 1€ more to opt out of it. The sales pitch was that it would not be spam, but selected exciting offers and information from them and their partners. Now to me this stinks like a soft dog shit during summer, but I was a broke helpdesk slave at the time and refused to pay them that 1 euro ransom. Local authorities put an end to that after a while.
I had used an alias e-mail address when I first signed up with them, so it was something in the lines of pias-saunalahti@somedomain.tld. Something that wouldn't obviously get guessed address spam.
I've long since moved to another carrier, but since it was an old web mail account I no longer use, I just left it behind. I logged in just out of curiosity and oh boy does it get spam. Anything from scams, dating scams to just generic spam.
'Only our partner's selected exciting offers'. Check. #spam
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Very long ago a Finnish cellphone carrier Saunalahti tried to force us a deal where the promised plan prices included receiving ads. If I recall correctly, they wanted 1€ more to opt out of it. The sales pitch was that it would not be spam, but selected exciting offers and information from them and their partners. Now to me this stinks like a soft dog shit during summer, but I was a broke helpdesk slave at the time and refused to pay them that 1 euro ransom. Local authorities put an end to that after a while.
I had used an alias e-mail address when I first signed up with them, so it was something in the lines of pias-saunalahti@somedomain.tld. Something that wouldn't obviously get guessed address spam.
I've long since moved to another carrier, but since it was an old web mail account I no longer use, I just left it behind. I logged in just out of curiosity and oh boy does it get spam. Anything from scams, dating scams to just generic spam.
'Only our partner's selected exciting offers'. Check. #spam
@aamurusko79 Heck, I use vodafone@ here and even in the absence of any pay-less-for-spam deal, I regularly receive spam to that address, including from other mobile carriers.
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@aamurusko79 Heck, I use vodafone@ here and even in the absence of any pay-less-for-spam deal, I regularly receive spam to that address, including from other mobile carriers.
@aamurusko79 Random aside: I was using such provider-specific addresses long ago, long enough that sometimes people from the provider thought I actually worked for them. And once, that even included my bank.
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@aamurusko79 Random aside: I was using such provider-specific addresses long ago, long enough that sometimes people from the provider thought I actually worked for them. And once, that even included my bank.
@amenonsen Shows how easily people could be scammed.
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@aamurusko79 Heck, I use vodafone@ here and even in the absence of any pay-less-for-spam deal, I regularly receive spam to that address, including from other mobile carriers.
@amenonsen The funny part is that when they first moved onto that model, I pointed out how quickly it'll be something else than their ads. People were fighting with eachother to tell me that I was just being paranoid and how all the checks and balances would prevent them selling the address to actual spam lists, I'd be surely just receiving maybe an ad or two from the carrier and related companies.
Last I checked, there was a lot of phishing mails, extortion scams and whatever. Something I really don't need for my current, active mail address. I will absolutely not trust any of my providers with my actual address these days, but thanks to per-company e-mail aliases, I know which of the bastards sold mine.
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@amenonsen The funny part is that when they first moved onto that model, I pointed out how quickly it'll be something else than their ads. People were fighting with eachother to tell me that I was just being paranoid and how all the checks and balances would prevent them selling the address to actual spam lists, I'd be surely just receiving maybe an ad or two from the carrier and related companies.
Last I checked, there was a lot of phishing mails, extortion scams and whatever. Something I really don't need for my current, active mail address. I will absolutely not trust any of my providers with my actual address these days, but thanks to per-company e-mail aliases, I know which of the bastards sold mine.
@aamurusko79 Something that *really* annoys me is that India now has a "Central KYC registry" shared between financial institutions (banks, mutual fund companies, brokerage companies, etc.), and the KYC record contains ONE email address. So various companies that I have any dealings with (all of whom can update the record) keep updating my email address. So in effect I can use only one.
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