A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: “Your booking is confirmed!”. This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn’t booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw… it was a stupid marketing email…

This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don’t use Clink Hostels.

  • @[email protected]English
    181•2 years ago

    Look up the email for their legal department and demand they cancel all fraudulent bookings under your name. Play dumb a little so they take it up with marketing.

    • @[email protected]English
      100•2 years ago

      Yeah, this is one of the few cases where going a bit Karen is called for. Fucking marketers.

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  • @[email protected]English
    84•2 years ago

    That’s a good way for their emails to all get marked as scams. They think they’re being slick, but are actually destroying their marketing campaign.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•2 years ago

    I get physical junk mail that makes it seem like I purchased something, subscribed to something, or signed up for something. It’s infuriating to say the least, probably illegal, too.

    • edricEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Same. Similar to those extended warranty scams, you’ll see the disclaimer in teeny tiny print at the bottom of the page on the backside.

      • SenexEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I just bought a car and my wife keeps wanting me to look at all the “final notice” crap we keep getting. I told her if it isn’t from our insurance company then toss it.

        • @[email protected]English
          6•2 years ago

          I open them up. If there’s a prepaid return envelope, I tear off everything with my information (including any barcodes), stick it in the envelope, and mail it back. Blank, of course.

          But then they have to pay the postal service to mail it, and someone to open it.
          I’m a job creator!

          • @[email protected]English
            1•2 years ago

            Back in the day you could tape their prepaid letters to bricks and have em pay for it.

            Now the Post Office just chucks it as “dead mail” same as other “non-mailable items” found in mailboxes.

  • ChainweaselEnglish
    21•2 years ago

    I get these too.
    The best part is that they keep getting added to my Google calendar. I have the option tuned off in my Google account settings, I report them as spam as soon as I get them, but I still get pop up notifications from my Google calendar reminding me of my “trip”.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•2 years ago

      That’s because gmail automatically adds .ics files to your calendar. I don’t even think there’s a way to disable it. I checked and my solution was to not use gmail for those things. For spam emails luckily I don’t have this problem

      • PsychadelligoatEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        Weird, mine asks me if I want to add things to my calendar still, up by the header, same spot it puts the “is this spam” question box

        • glibg10bEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          I hope Gmail aggregates the reports from other platforms, because most of Clink’s target market uses Gmail

  • @[email protected]English
    32•2 years ago

    Companies everywhere are getting desperate I feel like. Google’s adblocker crusade being the most egregious imo.