DO YOU EVER GO THROUGH YOUR SPAM?
Do you ever take the time to look through your ‘spam’ stuff online, emails or messages and just see what’s coming through?
I bet you do. I look at my spam email about once a week as sometimes something perfectly legitimate ends up there and I need to remove it. However it always intrigues me what ends up in the ‘spam’ folder.
This week, I’ve had an offer of FANTASTIC EDITORIAL COVERAGE where I can be on the front cover of a magazine as one of the TEN MOST EMPOWERING LEADERS TO WATCH! GLOBALLY NO LESS!
Wow, what an offer! How wonderful to be noticed when I’m sat at my little desk in Swindon, UK empowering my dog about PR and the media.
Of course, it’s all utter rubbish — as you soon see that this ‘opportunity’ costs over $3,500 from a publication we’ve never heard of…that’s called advertising.
Which has its place for some people — but that’s not it!
Then I had two offering me a ‘list’ of attendees at a business expo as these people are all DESPERATE TO MEET ME.
The problem with this is that I’m going to that event anyway and am taking a stand and I know the organisers very very well, we’ve collaborated for years — and these two people purporting to be selling their ‘list’ have absolutely nothing to do with them.
It’s a total scam in my spam!
Then there’s the lovely email from someone offering me a ‘heat exchanger’ and it begins with ‘hello dear’…how lovely to be addressed in such a way from a total stranger offering a product I don’t need.
Then the very personal email from someone I’ve never heard of who wants to ‘check in’ re the earlier email about the Yamaha piano that she told me about before in relation to her late husband. Can I help in finding it a new home? Absolutely not. I’ve no clue what you are talking about and it looks like you are also a scammer.
My social media spam messages this week didn’t include any nudity thank goodness. I had a legitimate message which had gone into spam and another from a chap offering me his magic formula for making money through social media. Delete.
Messages of this nature do intrigue me — they must get some traction surely or why would people bother? Or is it all bots or something else?
I wonder what next week’s spam will bring?
PS. There’s a story in everything.
