Sick of being spammed by the Golden Spiders?
October 4, 2007 at 11:03 am
It’s ridiculous – I’ve received about 8 emails since unsubscribing, an annoying phone call asking me why I haven’t nominated anyone this year, and it’s annoying. It’s distracting me from my work, wasting my time, and is in blatant disregard of the law on spamming.
UPDATE ON FRIDAY 5 OCT: I have just got another phone call from Jenny at the Golden Spiders. These people are driving me demented.
We have a data commissioners who are responsible for following up complaints on spamming. So if you actually want to do something about this, simply click this link and fill in the form.The address you need to fill in for the Golden Spiders on the form is: c/o Business & Finance, 1-4 Swift’s Alley,Francis Street, Dublin 8.
Update 1: Brian Greene forwarded on an email which he received from Don Farrell at Circulator. It was obviously in response to Brian’s own request to get off the lists. Circulator’s response it to absolve themselves of all reponsiblity – “The issue here is that you are in two subscriber groups and our client sent the newsletter to both groups. As Circulator is a self service application, we don’t get involved with each clients subscription list / distribution.”
That is not acceptable. I manage email campaigns on behalf of clients and it is my job to ensure that the unsubscribe process works. And if someone unsubscribes, no matter how many lists, that their name is removed. This spamming by the Golden Spiders is taking place on such a large scale that it is clearly not just 1 or 2 names that are appearing on multiple lists – it looks to me like there is flagrant ignoring of people’s requests to get off their lists.
Entry levels must be pretty low if they are so desperately calling people to enter.
Update 2: I have just fired off a volley of emails to Edel Carty at the Data Commissioners Office. I received an email from Edel, the Senior Investigating Officer, requesting copies of the emails received from Golden Spiders. Happily I fired all of them over to her. Let’s see what happens now….
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I hear you. I’ve received multiple, duplicate emails from the Golden Spiders over the last week (verging on 20 I would say) as well as receiving a cold call from them on Monday, asking if I was going to be entering another site this year.
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