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post #1 of 5
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I have had a trying week. So this latest drama, it is just icing on the cake.

Yesterday, I received an email emitted something about Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout. As I am a troop leader, I thought nothing of it when I opened it up, there is a camp coming up next month and I figured it had something to do with that. You can imagine my irritation when I read it is an invitation from another troop leader in my area (and when I say area, she is in the next state over) asking that I attend some function that she is holding in her new job and if I am interested, it is $30+ a month. You know, spam.

I don't know this woman. She probably is a troop leader but honestly, I have never seen her at any of our monthly meetings. She has picked up my email from our Girl Scout emails. I am not interested in her product. And my Death Star watermelon for my five year old's bday party, that starts in 15 minutes, has just taken a nose dive and crashed on the floor.

So I write back and I say, "Please remove me from your mailing list. I signed up for Girl Scouts, not spam." Probably could have gone without the spam part but I was being spammed and I did not care that information I gave to the Girl Scout's organization was being used on me.

This morning, I awoke to not one, or two, but THREE emails all basically saying that I am not being supportive of this woman and her new job. Really? I get spammed and then I get reprimanded because I speak out against the spam.

What do you think?
post #2 of 5

I lost a friendship over something like that...  One of her friends replied to all to one of my friend's (L) emails--those stupid forwarded emails.  I had had one of those days and emailed her back to please take me off her email list (it was a long time ago and I didn't understand replying to all at the time--and thought she was just adding me to all her forwards now).  I might have been a little curt...  L found out about it and just totally stopped communicating with me--no reason given and she didn't even ask why I did what I did.  I truly don't miss L's friendship though.

 

Anyway, I agree.  I think it is spam.  I get a lot of those too and I do just delete them now.  Once I got a phone call from someone's husband that I worked with trying to sell me something.  That ticked me off.  My phone was given out only as a means to communicate about the volunteer position--not to be put on someone's solicitor's list.

post #3 of 5

My e-mail service allows me to mark e-mails as spam and (eventually) they just automatically go to my spam folder. Your biggest mistake was responding to the e-mail because that proved that they had a "live one" on the hook. Thus you got more e-mails.

 

I also wouldn't assume that the spammer really was a Girl Scout leader. "She" is probably a hacker. I know when I first joined Avon, the majority of e-mails I got from them were spam because their e-mail list was continually hacked.

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Originally Posted by Cookie2 View Post

My e-mail service allows me to mark e-mails as spam and (eventually) they just automatically go to my spam folder. Your biggest mistake was responding to the e-mail because that proved that they had a "live one" on the hook. Thus you got more e-mails.

I also wouldn't assume that the spammer really was a Girl Scout leader. "She" is probably a hacker. I know when I first joined Avon, the majority of e-mails I got from them were spam because their e-mail list was continually hacked.

My yahoo mail account does not have that option on my iPad. One of my biggest complaints is that lack of spam button.
post #5 of 5
I admit that's annoying, but I would have just deleted the email and gone about my business. I have have had several people I know who send me stuff I don' want and I just delete it and don't reply at all. Eventually they stop.
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