> (You could also try to reset the password, often sent to the registered > email address.)
I have this issue with my gmail account. I get literally a TON of crap for other people who think they have my gmail account. Unfortunately putting the mail in spam and telling gmail to block it but it does absolutely no good. Mail continues to come and straight into my inbox in many if not most cases. Some repeat offenders are that I can't rid myself of: CVS - a pharmacy in the US. They have an unsub link but it's blocked outside the USA! Safeway Lifeline&ACP Mediacom mobile phone, I keep getting account notifications that someone's bill is about to be cut off for non payment because they never get notifications to log in and pay. Spectrum, same as above, presuably a different customer. Boost Mobile, again, same as above. Honda of New Rochelle - unsubscribed multiple times, mail put into spam, it keeps coming right back into my inbox. Someone has a Honda in my email. BMW of Fort Myers - same, unsubed, keeps coming. classmates.com, apparently no way to get off their list ever. New Row Dental Practice in the UK. They use some dental email spam engine named 'soegateway.com'. In one email I was getting from Sirus XM, I esclated it by phone through their abuse department. Their customer service refused to talk to me as I wasn't their actual customer. After more than a year and multiple phone calls, they finally started doing double-optin. In another case, a paper letter was sent in the mail to Cornell University. The IT director personally responded to me, appoligized, and it took another several weeks to fully extricate my email from their system. I have no idea if they managed to get their unsub working. In yet another case, Sprint, the now merged phone company with T-Mobile, I was getting someone else's bill. I just so happened to be friends with someone who worked in their security department and he walked my unsub request to the head of security there. In a very similar case, I did the same thing with Discover, the credit card company in the US. I have in some cases done a password reset and removed my email or set it to something like noreply@wherever. Unfortunately in some cases, they ask things like date of birth or social security number. To all of you out there creating these mailers: 1) always do double-option to verify the email address of clients you intend on sending account related stuff like statements or anything sensitive. 2) always provide a working unsub or not-me link, and 3) it does absolutely no good to put some ridiculous legal directive in an email. Your system sends me email at your peril, I will do whatever I want with it. Michael Grant
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