It looks like Dell has been a little dirty with their mailing lists. Using my old email address. Over the recent months since about chrismas (2010) dell started sending spam in my general direction. Under the UK data protection laws this should not be possible since they have to assure that personal information is accurate. Which of course it is.

However it gets worse. Since I hit an a unsubscribe link. The offical dell emails appeared to stop and then more dell emails started to suddenly come from somebody calling them selves Digital UK in the email header. Of course the unsubscribe from these emails does not appear to work are being sent from random servers and are also being sent from rotated domain names. Which in my terms means they are a straght up spammer since they are attempting to get around filters.

The people calling them selves Digital UK appear to also now be sending more spam for other companies. This only started sometime after the first dell email was recived. So I am adding dell to my list of dirty companies who are incapable of dealing with data in a legal and correct matter and of course adding them to the list of companies I would prefere never to deal with again.

Most of us have problem heard of confused.com. I used them a while ago only to be receiving marketing email since. So I followed the correct guidlines inside and email a while ago and attempt to unsubscribe. Only today I recived another email from them with more marketing junk that i don't want. So i went back to the unsubscribe system and found the following settings from the previous time I attempted to unsubscribe. More...

It looks like Egg (The online Bank) has turned into a bunch of spammers. There is some background to this as to why it is spam and not just normal email.

Over the last while I started to get a lot of email from them offering me 0% balances trandfers etc..

This is a log of the emails:

2011 - Jan - 6 - 1 EMail
2011 - Jan - 14 - 3 EMails * 
2011 - Jan - 17 - 2 EMails
2011 - Jan - 20 - 2 EMails
2011 - Jan - 24 - 2 EMails
2011 - Jan - 27 - 2 EMails

* This is when I requested an unsubscribe.

There response was:

I've forwarded your email on to the relevant department to ensure that all relevant email addresses are removed from or marketing lists as requested.

So after still getting emails over a week later I started complaining again. They responded with the following.

I've forwarded your details on to the relevant department to ensure that you are removed from our marketing lists.

The marketing team do plan around 10 weeks in advance so you may get some mail filter through over the coming weeks but this will then stop.

So after complaining that they say it takes 10 weeks to comply with a simple removal from their marketing database they sent the following in response.

The email you've sent me hasn't been sent through our secure website, therefore I'm unable to confirm your identity and access your personal details and account information.

This email service is for general product enquiries only.

* Go to www.egg.com
* Click on 'your accounts', found to the top right of the page.
* You'll then be taken through security and asked to enter information such as your mother's maiden name and your password.

Of course I could attempt to do this. However I have never had an account with egg and from the way that they are currently using their over aggressive marketing I will probably be avoiding them in the future.