Some time ago I signed a petition in support of Unicef’s ‘Born free from HIV’ campaign. I dont remember who I spoke to, it was someone on the streets of Manchester, but I do remember them explaining that the campaign was to apply pressure for funds promised at the G8 to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child. Ok I thought nobody is asking me for money which I’m not really in a position to give. As a student I’ve been steadily adding to my student loan debt but that doesn’t matter this person doesn’t want money and I’m getting off track.
So I gave some of my details including an email address. I like to make up my own email addresses for everything so that if I ever do get naughty spam I know exactly where it comes from. As you can probably imagine for this it was unicef@thisdomain.co.uk. A couple of days ago I got an email asking for a donation for some worthy cause. I didn’t agree to this! Maybe there was some obfuscated box that I failed to tick or maybe it was that the small text next to that box went along the lines of…
‘Tick me if you want to be plagued by spam. Ha! I bet you dont read this because you’re so used to this box being the opt out one’
Anyway I saw an unsubscribe link and normally I read that as ‘please confirm this is a real address so we can sell it for profit’ but I though that Unicef were well known surely they wouldn’t resort to such dirty tricks. I clicked through to their site and requested that they dont email me with fundraising emails again. All was well in the world until today when I got another fundraising email argh they didn’t comply.
Well that email alias has been deleted so I’ll never be pestered by Unicef again and if I’m ever fortunate enough to encounter another representative of theirs I’ll tell them exactly what I think of their naughty behaviour.
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