A lot of my in-house activities include internetting which involves a lot of email checking. This blog has been around for about six months and I've been receiving some very strange emails recently. I find them sort of spammy but not to the point where they feel robotic which is probably why Gmail doesn't pick them up. So I thought I would share:
I received an email from a woman who wanted me to share my thoughts on a diet/fitness app. She ended the email with "If this sounds too silly, or absurd, just ignore what I just said, hehe =)" which I think this is a technique to get someone to answer so they won't send you the unintentional message that they think you are "silly" by not responding. I didn't respond but it wasn't because I thought it was silly or absurd, it seemed like spam and I didn't want to get signed up for "updates" on the app.
The next one I received was from a man who wanted to sell me Dayton Restaurants dot com for the very very very low price of $375! Heck, I bet I could have even paid with 12 easy installments if I had any interest. This industrious fellow was from Cincinnati and the address he had in the email went to what appeared to be some sort of private compound. Über creepy and über not interested.
And lastly, today I received an email from an entrepreneur who has clients who are interested in sponsoring recent posts. It's my lucky day, huh!? He even was kind enough to leave his website address which I dutifully did not go to. I did some googling and others had similar experiences but never went through with it. I didn't mention the best part; the subject line was "We Love iloovesooh.com!"...awww?
This is my first public blog that I have posted consistently at, so these emails are new to me. I'm sure I'm not the first or the last person to receive these sort of psedo-spam(?) emails. Has anyone else had any experiences with these sort of emails? Maybe even with the same people. What is the weirdest email you have received since you started blogging?
I've had some crazy emails, Like yours people wanting to put links on post or the blog. My feeling is I work too hard on the blog to give it away for tenths of a penny a click. Screw that.
ReplyDeleteOthers are people leaving comments with links, same thing, I dump those as spam.
At any rate, they're worth a laugh aren't they?
I just find it weird how they solicit in email. If I really wanted to put ads on my blog they would be there. Who knows though, maybe some people who blog don't know you can make pennies per click for ads and that email is just what they need to inform them haha. I haven't had anyone just try to dump a link without me asking for resources etc but otherwise I agree; totally spammy.
ReplyDeleteBethany I totally just got my first one of those a week or so ago! They are so weird...and I can't remember exactly what mine were for but it ended with something like the "hehe" message you got?
ReplyDeleteI get those all the time. Delete!
ReplyDelete@Ally The "hehe" ones are the worst! The only reason they stick out to me is because at first I think they are comments so I'm excited and then I open them and I'm like "whaaa?". Haha, so they are sort of bummer.
ReplyDelete@Kevin I haven't gotten enough to get annoyed and delete them. I'm sort of an email hoarder and usually never delete anything.