Marketing and Spam and Corporate Illiteracy?
Posted on : 08-02-2010 | By : admin | In : Spam & Bulk Mail
Tags: Blah Blah, Countless Time, Help Department, Yahoo Abuse, Yahoo Members
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I may be incorrect in this assumption, but I think that most Yahoo! members wouldn’t have agreed to be marketed to if they had known that Yahoo! would be selling their email addresses to purveyors of ***** pumps, pornography, date-a-whore services, and loan scams. After all, that is mostly what I receive in my Bulk Mail file. Nor did any of us sign up with a service that seems to never actually read the Help questions, nor does it answer direct queries. Or one that in fact ignores the customer so completely. Recently I had a piece of email, reporting spam, returned to me as UNDELIVERABLE. It was addressed to the Yahoo! abuse address, as supplied countless time via the WHOIS listings. One used on countless times. And when I asked why this happened, I got a reponse that said someone had forged my headers and blah-blah-blah. In other words, NO ONE read the query. No one read the subsequent query either. This Answers section, is it not just us doing Yahoo’s job for them. Maybe better?
I never answer them. What I am talking about it the ones that turn out to have been sent by Yahoo! I never signed on for the recent spate of self-described “sexually explicit” promos. And I certainly never signed on for a Help department that won’t actually answer a single damn direct question.




Yahoo sadly cannot do anything about these scams. The messages come from computers which are taken over by hackers and used for this purpose. It is almost impossible to catch these people. The main thing is for us to be careful not to fall for their scams. Don’t answer just delete them Good luck and be careful.
I feel your pain! I have tried numerous times to contact the Yahoo! customer service department with specific questions, and I always get generic answers. What’s funny is that my questions have been about their rules and regulations, and every answer I’ve gotten says to “refer to the rules and regulations.”
I love how we are on here making tons of money for them, yet they can’t give us the decancy of good customer service!