In a previous rant, I detailed how people inexplicably manage to sign my email addresses up to all sorts of shit. It still happens regularly. Only thing that’s changed is my tolerence for it.

I’ve been receiving this annoying bunch of marketing newsletters from a car dealership for months and months, despite having hit the ‘unsubscribe’ link a dozen times.

Today I received a confirmation that a car I don’t own is scheduled for a service appointment at a garage in a country I don’t live in. I clicked the link in the email and it automagically signed me in, password free, to their account at their automotive dealers.

And yup, there it was. My email address as their primary contact method. Along with their names, addresses, telephone numbers and full details of their car.

So to teach them a lesson, I cancelled their scheduled service appointment (of course, the confirmation of that came to me!), and while I was there, used the ‘update details’ section of their car profile to add 299,000,000 to their current mileage reading. So, when they turn up to the garage for their cancelled appointment, fun and games will likely ensue…. and I have a feeling their next service quote might be quite costly!

People: Getting your own email address correct for important things is a really good idea. Especially if you accidentally use a real email address belonging to someone vindictive like me that is getting quite sick of it by now!