Marketing email's subject made me think my card got hacked

A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: “Your booking is confirmed!”. This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn’t booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw… it was a stupid marketing email…

This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don’t use Clink Hostels.

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Jessvj93,

Companies everywhere are getting desperate I feel like. Google’s adblocker crusade being the most egregious imo.

KonalaKoala,
@KonalaKoala@lemmy.world avatar

At least it didn’t state “Your booking is confirmed for the presidential suite in (insert very expensive hotel and location here)” and make you feel you need to make a lot of phone calls to many different places while trying to figure out what is going on.

randomTingler,
threelonmusketeers,

Filter messages like these -> Move to ‘Spam’.

Nommer,

Nah. Report it as spam. Still gets moved to your spam folder and if enough people do it, they’ll be flagged by default.

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Your email inbox reads like a Zoomer message thread

HawlSera,

Can’t be legal

pineapplelover,

Always nice to see a fellow ProtonMail user. Wassup fam

twei,

If he has unlimited he could use SimpleLogin aliases in the future

pineapplelover,

Ye, it’s pretty worth it imo. I got like over 500 aliases.

WholeEnchilada,

It makes no sense. They’re basically asking you to travel out of your way just to spend money on them. Like, I don’t know, a prostitute would. What kind of hostel is this place? It makes no sense as far as marketing goes. Unless it’s you know, THAT kind of hostel.

Ledivin,

That’s a good way for their emails to all get marked as scams. They think they’re being slick, but are actually destroying their marketing campaign.

WholeEnchilada,

Yeah, it’s silly.

Qwaffle_waffle,

Gotta go for the short term gains, babyeeeee!

Kanda,

Get that bonus, apply for jobs elsewhere. Rinse and repeat.

Basil,

Literally who the hell is gonna see this and think “ah what the hell?”

SnuggleSnail,

Just show up and show them the booking confirmation!

Maggoty,

A “Swanky Hostel.”

Yup that’s a scam email.

SocialMediaRefugee,

“My payment has been confirmed via paypal! No? Now you know how I feel.”

Anti_Face_Weapon,

Blacklist the company from your emails. They have lost emailing privileges.

ndsvw,
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

Hey, Clink Hostels.

I want so inform you that a spam mail was sent from your address.

Oh, that was actually you??? 🙄😑 That’s embarrassing.

ndsvw,
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

Well, they are right with one point: That’s embarrassing

Hiro8811,

Nice to see someone else using proton

Tobin,
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