Spam Emails After Ordering Products

[ACM]

Is anyone experiencing a sudden spike in spam emails after ordering e-smoking products? I am suddenly getting upwards of 5-10 vape related spams every day. I have only dealt with a few companies, but it irritates me that my email address would be sold off to a spammer so soon (only vaping 3 weeks.)

Not cool, IMHO.

 

[Charlie58]

Haven't gotten any e mails except conformations and product shipped notices.
Don't know what happened I think I have used about 10 different vendors and nothing like that.

 

[doots]

same here. no spam emails for me

 

[ACM]

It looks like all the spams I am getting are originating from the same place (I don't mean the company I bought from, but some spam company.) They're all the same thing: Try our product for 14 days for free, then pay $100 and get enrolled in a monthly program when, I think, they ship carts automatically.

I did the "unsubscribe" thing and deleted the email, so I can't put the name of the company here, now. If I get another one, I will post it.

Glad it's not a rampant problem for everyone.

 

[Stickless]

This is not new and it certainly isn't what I would label as an acceptable business practice by a supplier.

If you're sure who the responsible party is you should expose them to the community.

Definitely not cool.

 

[feversilk]

no spam here either

 

[JeannieB360]

If your mail program has a spam filter use it to keep those emails from coming in to your inbox. I use gmail and that allows me to mark an item as spam, and they'll send anything else from that sender to your spam folder.

It's NOT a good idea to click the 'unsubscribe' button from spammers - you've just verified that your email account is active, so they can add your name to a list for sale at a higher price because it's a 'good' address.

I've had an increase in spam lately but none of it for ecig products, and I've bought from a lot of suppliers. I suspect some other e-tailer sold my address, because I'm getting the generic emails to buy ......, get student loans that don't have to be repaid, etc.

 

[angjen0816]

no e-cig spam for me either...i didnt know that you aren't suppose to unsubscribe though....thanks for the tip

 

[geeker]

I contacted Alibaba once, and now I get half a dozen emails a day from various overseas distributors. They have also called me on the phone. That's what I get for giving them my phone number.

 

[Wench]

no spam for me except for the companies I buy from for the newsletters I signed up for with them.

 

[mpetva]

I have been getting e-cig related spam on 2 of my email addies I've used to order e-cigs. Started about 1-2 weeks ago.

Most of them are from a company called Smart Smoker offering a free trial.

www getsmartsmoker com

 

[VapingRulz]

Nope, not getting any spam either.

 

[ACM]

Yeah, that's it - Smart Smoker. The link is something else, though, which sounds like it might be a spam marketing company that will probably send "free" offers like the one for Smart Smoker to me, now.

I don't usually unsusbscribe from spam because I know that most spam is bot-generated. Unsubscribing usually just lets them know that one of the random bot emails turned out to be a real one, and then that's the end. Spam city.

But I did unsubscribe from Smart Smoker's spam, mainly because it was too targeted a product. They already know my email is legit. It would be too coincidental to suddenly be getting e-cig spam.

If I do find out which vendor made an easy buck off my email addy, I will post their name all over this forum! (Or at least in one thread for all to see!)

 

[Thyestean]

just confirmations and ship notices here.

 

[quasimod]

Is anyone experiencing a sudden spike in spam emails after ordering e-smoking products?

Nope. Not one single vape-related spam email so far. It's been almost two months since I started ordering everything from everybody.

 

[jj2]

I use my generic email which is Hotmail so if I get them, they go to junk and I don't see them.

 

[Mo JJC]

Smart Smoker since I did a survey posted on here. it took me to a web site. It was a survey to send to fda

 

[mpetva]

Smart Smoker since I did a survey posted on here. it took me to a web site. It was a survey to send to fda

That makes sense now....I also took the survey.

 

[the86d]

No issues here.

CigNot, SmokePlantation, EastMall, eSmokeyTreats, J.Creek, and mypvshop all ordered from with no issues.

FYI: I have been on these nets for a long time and know to keep a separate account (actually I have like 7 active accounts) to use when buying things or to use on say 4ums. Like: spam.this.it.is.not.my.main.account@hotmail.com (not my real one) works wonders. The e-mail longer addy (before the @ symbol) has never been generated randomly like joes83, joes84, or jshwabb83 do. This sometimes causes issues because one petition would not let me sign it and I couldn't figure out why... because the word spam appears in the addy, but I received no error it just took me back to typing and didn't post.

Keep a spreadsheet or some other type of "password-able" document so you can keep track of sites, usernames, and (/etc/)passwd combos.

 

[Deschain]

I've used several UK based stores, one US based store and two Chinese stores so far...all they send me is confirmations, order updates and tracking numbers.


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