After blogging about how Singapore companies spam us, I have just received a new spam from a well-known IT company in Singapore who has a database to sell. First of all, I don’t know how I got this email from this company when I have not given them any permission for emailing me. Secondly, they are preaching exactly what they are doing right then (which is to mass-email to the database who don’t know that their emails are with this company!).
I think that the Singapore companies’ understanding about spam is out-dated. It’s really no longer about sending that first email to the person, and putting in an unsubscribe link below. One of the well-known companies is even worse; they didn’t put in the unsubscribe link at all. I replied directly to that email to ask them to put the “unsubscribe” link, but there’s no answer. And I continue to receive another one without the unsubscribe link.
Well, we can’t really blame any of them. They are still pretty new to the new media. They are only too familiar with TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. But have they really wonder how they actually react to the spams that they are getting everyday?
Another scenario. I have just signed up with an online service with a Singapore-based website. This website actually asks me if it is ok for 3rd party merchants to email promotional information. I put that as OK. But I really wonder if they did it by selling the database to the merchants to spam us, or they are using this media on behalf of their 3rd party merchants. I would prefer the 2nd choice because that will mean I know it’s from them…
