- Got a compliment on good tech support 🙂 … but it was intended for another company with a similar name. 🙁
- I alternate between finding it amusing & annoying that I get spam for local businesses in Brazil. It’s a bit of a drive from SoCal.
- It’s sad to get Christmas cards for someone who used to live at your address. We’ve gotten two this year, but none last year. Maybe last year’s were still forwarded, and the forwarding order expired.
Tag: email
No Reply Possible
Don’t you love it when your “Sorry, you sent your complaint to the wrong company” email bounces because the complainer left a bogus address?
Email Confusion
Why do people email me to tell me email is down? WHY? What makes them think I’ll receive the message?
Obligatory User Friendly comic (Jan 28, 1999):
Just as confusing: A spammer sent me this urgent message: “We need to remove cupboard, come on!” Uh, yeah, I’ll get right on that…
CentOS List Hijack
- Pissed off because some a-hole with a centos.org address posted multiple copies of a racist antisemitic diatribe to the CentOS announcement list.
- CentOS sent an apology to lists. Said spammers forged the sender’s address to get past moderation. Look back, name doesn’t match address.
FIB Scamming
Lame 419 scam: How likely is the FBI Director to contact someone using a GMAIL address?
Update 2023: I vastly underestimated the use of Gmail by government officials, didn’t I?