Chinese email torture

[JoeyP]

Anyone else getting daily emails from TCF (claims to be TongChuangFa Electric CO.) in China? I've been getting these emails every single day for a long time, and now it has increased to multiple emails per day.

I've never clicked on any of their links, assuming they were just attempts to spread viruses. If they are a legitimate company (they claim to do membrane switches, PCBs etc.), sending this ridiculous amount of junk mail has absolutely guaranteed that I will never do business with them.

I think Chinese water torture has been updated to Chinese email torture.

[Tinkerer]

Anyone else getting daily emails from TCF (claims to be TongChuangFa Electric CO.) in China? I've been getting these emails every single day for a long time, and now it has increased to multiple emails per day.

I've never clicked on any of their links, assuming they were just attempts to spread viruses. If they are a legitimate company (they claim to do membrane switches, PCBs etc.), sending this ridiculous amount of junk mail has absolutely guaranteed that I will never do business with them.

I think Chinese water torture has been updated to Chinese email torture.

And you didnt set your email to block them? Why?

[TMM]

Haven't bought any electronics from a chinese ebay seller recently?

I've found many of them spam you about their non-ebay store/business with no option to unsubscribe. Maybe their system is stupid enough to add you multiple times to their mailing list? I just add them to my spam filter.

[marshallh]

I was relentlessly spammed ever since buying 1 order from PCB-cart (and they screwed up the pcbs as well)

[BravoV]

Do those spams worded in Chinglish ? 

[SeanB]

I am getting them from India, but the spam filter is now taking them. Had a couple of calls from "Microsoft" as well, at home I tell them where to put the phone, how to do it and using what accessories, but at work I refer them to support helldesk. They had one on the line for 2 hours one day ( slow day and they were all listening in on conference) before he gave up. They wanted his IP to DDOS him, or just a plain massive flood if he was on less than 1G of fibre as they are.

[David_AVD]

I was relentlessly spammed ever since buying 1 order from PCB-cart (and they screwed up the pcbs as well)

I order from PCB Cart often but have never had any spam from (or related to) them.

[AndyC_772]

This is why, whenever I have to provide an email address to a company I don't absolutely trust 100% (and that's most of them!), I provide them a unique alias.

It only takes a minute to set up, say, 'chinesepcbcompany @ andysdomain.com', and have it forward to my personal inbox, but now I have a way to uniquely identify any email which I receive as a result of having provided an address to that one particular company.

If they send me spam themselves, or sell my details, or are hacked, then I know straight away who is responsible, and I can switch the spam off simply by deactivating the address again.

Some companies hate it when I do this because they know just how accountable it makes them, but that's OK. A request to do business != a request to be added to their mailing list and that of their 'carefully selected partners'.

[Stonent]

Asian is a race, Chinese is a nationality, like American.

[dexters_lab]

This is why, whenever I have to provide an email address to a company I don't absolutely trust 100% (and that's most of them!), I provide them a unique alias.

It only takes a minute to set up, say, 'chinesepcbcompany @ andysdomain.com', and have it forward to my personal inbox, but now I have a way to uniquely identify any email which I receive as a result of having provided an address to that one particular company.

If they send me spam themselves, or sell my details, or are hacked, then I know straight away who is responsible, and I can switch the spam off simply by deactivating the address again.

i do all mine the same and have been doing so for many many years, i have 100s of forwards now!

for the most part i never see any spam, but just occasionally i will see spam coming in through some surprising places. Usually indicating they have been hacked and their databases slurped.

[PA4WD]

This is why, whenever I have to provide an email address to a company I don't absolutely trust 100% (and that's most of them!), I provide them a unique alias.

It only takes a minute to set up, say, 'chinesepcbcompany @ andysdomain.com', and have it forward to my personal inbox, but now I have a way to uniquely identify any email which I receive as a result of having provided an address to that one particular company.

If they send me spam themselves, or sell my details, or are hacked, then I know straight away who is responsible, and I can switch the spam off simply by deactivating the address again.

Some companies hate it when I do this because they know just how accountable it makes them, but that's OK. A request to do business != a request to be added to their mailing list and that of their 'carefully selected partners'.

For Gmail you can do this.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en

Using an address alias
Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com.

You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, or forward to another email account.

[CaptnYellowShirt]

I don't think there is any need to bring race into this. I don't complain about the American shit flood of spam I get from that country, or the boat loads I get from eastern Europe and Russia. Spammers are spammers, every country has them, some more than others.

Brown, black, red, yellow, or white...  we all bleed the same color spam.

[linux-works]

use throwaway email addys.

sneakemail (service) is one I use and has been working well the last several years.  its not expensive and the web UI is simple and usable enough.

[JoeyP]

In this case, they captured the email addresses from my business website, so fake/throwaway addresses etc. wouldn't have prevented it (and ya, I use those too when ordering online). And of course I can and have set my spam filter to take care of it.

I was just curious if anyone else was getting spam from this particular company. It's gone on every single day for what seems like years. Hard to imagine they think it would actually be effective. In my mind, it demoted them to the absolute bottom of the list amongst thousands of companies offering their services. Almost seems like they're doing it just to be obnoxious.

[David_AVD]

The email spammers go straight to my "will not deal with" list too.  We cop the same crap over and over from security camera / DVR suppliers that seem to change email addresses regularly.  Maybe they really think if they spam you enough you will buy.   

[amyk]

Since this looks more like an actual company instead of some random spammer, perhaps they might listen if you told them they've been emailing you every day?

[rexxar]

Why the hell didn't I think to set up unique aliases for shady websites?! 

[zapta]

For Gmail you can do this.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en

Using an address alias
Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com.

Nice trick. Thanks for sharing, did not know about it. I am using gmail with my own domain so all the unused addresses in that domains are routed to me. When I deal with questionable entities I give email address like  company_xxx@mydomain.com. It's very interesting to see later where the span was originated.

[just_fib_it]

For Gmail you can do this.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en

Using an address alias
Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com.

Nice trick. Thanks for sharing, did not know about it. I am using gmail with my own domain so all the unused addresses in that domains are routed to me. When I deal with questionable entities I give email address like  company_xxx@mydomain.com. It's very interesting to see later where the span was originated.

Unfortunately that trick is already useless against most spammers because they simply strip off the +something and use your real email address. Might work with companies that are merely incompetent but not malicious though.

[echen1024]

I am dealing with the same from a bunch of Alibaba sellers. The spammers always start with "Dear Lord"

[linux-works]

maybe they are channeling george harrison from beyond the grave?

oh wait, that's not 'dear lord' its 'my sweet lord'.

nevermind.

[electrolux]

Anyone else getting daily emails from TCF (claims to be TongChuangFa Electric CO.) in China? I've been getting these emails every single day for a long time, and now it has increased to multiple emails per day.

I've never clicked on any of their links, assuming they were just attempts to spread viruses. If they are a legitimate company (they claim to do membrane switches, PCBs etc.), sending this ridiculous amount of junk mail has absolutely guaranteed that I will never do business with them.

I think Chinese water torture has been updated to Chinese email torture.

There's the WONDERFUL Chinese for yer. Ahhhh.