Abusing Data Privacy Legislation – Irish Spammers Trying To Act Cute

I have a strong dislike of spam and spammers.
On one level I am an email user, so their junk could clog up my inbox and waste my time. I may not read the rubbish, but deleting stuff that actually gets past my filters takes up time I could spend doing other things…
On another level I have no respect for the people who use spam to promote their business.
It doesn’t matter if they are competing with me or not. Spam is a lazy and unimaginative way of marketing and people who resort to it should be treated as pariahs.
In any case last night was a case in point.
For the second time in the last few months I got a “charming” spam from an Irish “web design company”
Apart from the obvious fact that I’m big enough and ugly enough to find web designers when I need them (I think most people probably are ie. it’s not one of those things that you purchase on a whim) the “designer” in question is second rate at best.
They’re also not very good at spamming.
The opening line is really bad:
To whom it may concern
That’s just plain lazy. Couldn’t you try to be a little bit more inventive? If I was going to start spamming people I’d use much catchier opening lines.
Of course this idiot can’t spell either, which is just annoying. Would you hire a “designer” who can’t tell the difference between “whether” and “weather”?
The humble apostrophe also gets plenty of abuse at the hands of this genius:
Are Prices are very competitive but our design’s always have the wow factor.
What’s an always? I didn’t think it could own anything …
“Wow factor” has been upgraded to part of the English language I see.. How charming!
But the bit that really makes me giggle is the last line:
This email was sent according to the guidelines of the Data Protection Commissioner All recipients of this mail were compiled from online directories therefore given permission to be contacted via email.
Oh dear oh dear.
I somehow doubt the Data Protection Commissioner would agree. In fact I know they wouldn’t.
If you do get an email from this spammer please report him to his hosting provider. People like this shouldn’t be allowed waste space on the internet.
If you do want web design then check out professionals like Edenweb, Forbairt, SpoiltChild, Communicraft, Curratech and many more… At least they don’t spam people instead of doing proper marketing!