…someone I don’t know.
Someone sent me a cute card from Greet King, but the sender was listed as *“Database Error: Illegal characters in field [sender_name] *”
Was it you? I only use this email address for a few things, so it had to be from here or another MB.
Thanks, whoever sent it. It was really cute.
Please let me know if it was you, so I can personally thank you!
Son of a bitch.
The same thing happened to me. I also got the ‘Database Error: Illegal characters in field’. My card was a flasher kinda guy who flashes ‘Hi’. I have no clue who would send something like that to me, but who knows.
I first wondered about it and then let it go. Now I’m positive. This has got to be a scam.
The big tip-off, for me, was all the personal information they want. Name, address, income, all kinds of bullshit to get the ‘important message’.
Well, they didn’t get anything from me. All lies, as is my rule when replying to people or things I don’t know about.
But this still really pisses me off. I hate it when companies pull this kind of sneaky crap to gather information on people.
If you can’t be upfront and have to resort to this kind of manipulative bullshit, you don’t deserve to be in business. In fact, you need to lose some serious money, IMO.
I’m firing off a letter to these slime right now.
Well, shit, so was mine. And yes, they wanted some personal info before I could access the card. (I lied, too.)
Now I’m disappointed! It was a scam?!? What kind of shit is that?
Grrrrrr…
I get two to three of those per day. Always the same crap. It’s apparently a “please give us all your info so we can send you all kinds of other SPAM crap!” ploy. These people are somewhat clever, though. They know that everyone is just dying to know who loves them enough to send them an e-card! Preying upon our fragile egos–the nerve!
I got one this morning. I know one of my non-internet-savvy family gave those people my address. I just know it! :mad: