Spam from Guitar Center(?)

TD

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Mar 5, 2014, 6:16:53 PM3/5/14

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I am just wondering. I have been constantly receiving spam e mails purportedly from a rep from Guitarcenter dot com. It's always from a different rep @guitarcenter dot com. This has been going on for quite some time now. And it's always addressed, not to me, to "Joe." I have written to Guitar Center about the matter, but have yet to receive any response. The e mails have logo in full regalia with selling this or that or announcing workshops in some oddball areas of the country. Just wondering if this is only happening to me.

rpjazzguitar

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Mar 5, 2014, 7:06:30 PM3/5/14

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I get the occasional email from GC, since I shop there. But not what you're describing.

Tim McNamara

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Mar 5, 2014, 8:47:43 PM3/5/14

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:16:53 -0800 (PST), TD <tonyde...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I get occasional announcements from Guitar Center, having ordered from
them in the past, but I am not getting the e-mail that you are getting.
Try forwarding it to "sp...@guitarcenter.com" Many business maintain a
"spoof@" malbox for reporting spam and scams going out under their
brand name.

TD

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Mar 5, 2014, 10:37:37 PM3/5/14

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Turns out it's been Guitar Center all along. They finally wrote back saying they took me off their list. Real jive of them. Annoying and relentless e mails and all "spoof-like", yet it's actually them. Some of the e mails say, "Thanks for your recent Purchase." I can't recall maybe the one time I ever purchased anything from them and that was many years ago. They hop websites, because they used my website e mail address to send me the spam; always addressed to "Joe." Some punk who is head of their marketing probably thought he came up with a brain-storm. All they did was cement the fact that I'll never set foot inside that turkey ever again, which I would never do anyhow.

Jonathan

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Mar 6, 2014, 9:58:26 AM3/6/14

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Most emails like that have an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom.
Some seem to work.

TD

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Mar 6, 2014, 10:30:01 AM3/6/14

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Not this one. But I took another approach that hopefully works.

Steve Freides

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Mar 6, 2014, 1:35:28 PM3/6/14

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My unsubscribe request to Guitar Center didn't work, and when I called
to complain, they explained that some of the emails originate with GC as
a corporation while others originate with any local store you've bought
from, and it can be hard to tell the difference. You have to keep
unsubscribing and hope you hit at least one of all the sources of the
emails. I'm off their lists (plural) now but it took a while.

-S-

Mitch

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Mar 8, 2014, 1:47:32 PM3/8/14

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On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:16:53 PM UTC-5, TD wrote:
> I am just wondering. I have been constantly receiving spam e mails purportedly from a rep from Guitarcenter dot com. It's always from a different rep @guitarcenter dot com. This has been going on for quite some time now. And it's always addressed, not to me, to "Joe." I have written to Guitar Center about the matter, but have yet to receive any response. The e mails have logo in full regalia with selling this or that or announcing workshops in some oddball areas of the country. Just wondering if this is only happening to me.

That's so annoying! Spam emails seem to have picked up where the telemarketers left off...
Mitch

Mitch

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Mar 10, 2014, 11:25:09 AM3/10/14

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Did you say Guitar Center? I received one of those today from Sweetwater!!
('DELETE...).
Mitch

Steve Freides

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Mar 12, 2014, 8:04:02 AM3/12/14

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The telemarkets haven't left off at my house yet. I've gone through the
classic Five Phases of Answering Telemarketing Calls:

1. Politely Decline.

2. Ask to be Removed from List and Politely Decline.

3. Just Hang Up.

4. Push "1" and Wait for Someone to Pick Up and Then Hang Up.

5. Push "1" and Wait for Someone to Pick Up, Use the F Word, and Then
Hang Up.

Phase 5 is the most satisfying but, unfortunately, also takes the most
time and has the disadvantage of being difficult to do while a
school-age student is in the room.

-S-

DanielleOM

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Mar 29, 2014, 7:25:59 PM3/29/14

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On 3/5/2014 6:16 PM, TD wrote:
> I am just wondering. I have been constantly receiving spam e mails purportedly from a rep from Guitarcenter dot com. It's always from a different rep @guitarcenter dot com. This has been going on for quite some time now. And it's always addressed, not to me, to "Joe." I have written to Guitar Center about the matter, but have yet to receive any response. The e mails have logo in full regalia with selling this or that or announcing workshops in some oddball areas of the country. Just wondering if this is only happening to me.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. There's a feature called
"Message Source" that let's you see a lot of detail regarding the origin
of the message and stops along the way where it was forwarded again. I
believe that feature exists for many other email clients and it might be
worth search for "Message Source" for your email client or web mail.
It's the first thing I look at any time I see anything suspicious.

Danielle