what the crap!?
Grrrrrrr…
A couple of weeks ago, I emailed a local mortgage/loan company about possible consolidation since they are claiming great rates right now, blah blah blah. Anyway, I sent the guy some information and the next day he responded telling me to call and have certain documents ready. His email is dated July 9th and I have not had time to call or respond. I planned on doing so, but…
I open my email tonight to find something by the subject of “FW: Fw: Fwd: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE REEEEEAD! IT WAS ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TODAY SHOW” by someone who’s name I didn’t recognize. Took me a second to figure it out but I got a crap forward email from a business address by a loan officer! Someone who’s supposed to be a professional! Do I have to create a throw-away email forwarder for everyone I email??? It’s fake, people! Get with it!!
Better yet? It’s one of those forwards that’s a hoax. One that says you’ll get $124 per person you send the email to, and a downline and some crap like that.
Why does this warrant an entry in the “how to tick me off” category? He sent this to my “professional” email address, one that is completely and utterly spam-free. One that does not get forwards. And now… my address is appended with a thousand others just waiting to be picked up by spam bots. This email literally takes up 17 pages, the actual email not starting until halfway down page 12. Then there’s one page of the actual email body, the remaining is all “confidentiality agreements.”
And not only did he forward it, oh, no, but he wrote this above the forward: What do you have to lose?
My spam-free email address, apparently!!
He also got it from another loan officer at the same place of business.
I am totally turned off by this place now. I mean, these people are supposed to be professionals, yet they fall for this stupid hoax? I mean, seriously!
Ugh. So I replied to the guy. First I asked him not to send me email forwards then I told him it was all a hoax. A bit later I decided to reply to everyone else who got the email, too, and sent them the Snopes link. :P I got an auto-response back from someone else at the same company… all in friggin’ caps and with abbreviations/symbols such as “w/” and “@.” What is wrong with people!? Whatever happened to professionalism?
I am so turned off to this company it’s not even funny. In fact, I am reminded of the company we used to refinance our house several years ago. Thanks to these idiots, we get all sorts of “real” mail addressed to my in-laws at our house, and they have never lived here before! I mean, I can understand Steve getting mail at their house since he used to actually live there, but they’ve never lived here and in the last five years, we have officially received mail for all of them except for Sarah. We know it has to be because of this refinance guy since he knows Steve’s dad and we got hooked up with him through that relationship. It started with mail at our house addressed to Steve’s dad but then moved on to include his mom, then his brothers, and now his sisters. It’s junk mail, of course, not real stuff - so you know this company sold our address with all their names.
Ugh stupid.
