Dear Editor,
Receiving every day on average about 100 emails, from which 90 are ads for computer products, cosmetics, lingerie, condoms, mobile phones and real estate, really makes me mad and angry because I do not need any of these items.
Furthermore, it takes me everyday lots of time to enter my emails and after that to delete them. It also makes me crazy, because:
– it’s all pure SPAM and, as such, totally useless
– all ads or messages are completely irrelevant
– the senders do not have scruples as they mention, “this message gives you important information and as such is not spam”
– the majority of these mailings are prepared by amateurs; some of these emails can have up to 20MB taking 30 minutes to enter them!
– there is never or rarely an eye-catcher in these mails, making them so dull that nobody even pays them a glance
– most of these emails mention at the end that one can ask to be removed from the mailing list (only for this company not from the list-brokers list of course) but unfortunately in more than 50% of the cases the link is not activated! Isn’t that criminal?
– as these messages come from Brazil, Argentina, Romania, Russia and even from Mauritius… who is so stupid to buy in a pre-payment system from such places? One must be out of ones mind doing that!
– The mix of all these emails shows clearly that somebody in Portugal gathered (or stole) all email addresses he can find to then sell them on to a foreign list broker, who proposes them to his clients who are, in the end, the providers of all this nonsense.
– It is clear neither the Portuguese source nor the national list-broker have any knowledge about target marketing and, as a result, they send everything to everybody (sold at 25 cents per address)
It is clear that these SPAM emails infringe scrupulously my privacy every day and I am not happy with that. Every day I lose at least one hour entering the emails system and deleting these emails. And I really delete them all. And now I have to apologise to some of my friends because it is possible that their well-intentioned email, by accident, may have perished together with the bad guys!
It’s really a pity that this fantastic invention and marvellous tool called the internet is daily poisoned and killed not only by scammers, pitchers, virus cowboys and other savages but also by unprofessional business people that are nervously in search of the wrong clients. Thanks to their (Portuguese) unprofessional list providers!
Guido, Carvoeiro
