SOMEONE'S TALKING A LOAD OF PANTS...

I'm somewhat bewildered by some of the contents of my email inbox these days.  I've received several recently from a place called something like 'Underwear Club', which I deleted without even looking at - until tonight.  "Why does this place keep bothering me?" I thought, mystified, so I opened it, only to find an ad with a photo of several guys sitting around in their underwear.  

As far as I could tell from my quick glance, it was a genuine place selling such garments, perhaps for guys of a certain 'persuasion', but I know for a fact that I've never visited the site, so I can only assume that they're just randomly sending out emails in a scattershot approach in the hope of drumming up some business.  Perhaps earlier emails from them were for women's underwear and because I never responded they thought they'd try a different approach, but I don't know.

(It did cross my mind for a moment that one of my friends might've thought it would be funny to subscribe to it in my name in order to wind me up.  One friend once put an advert in a local paper saying that an African grey parrot was going free to a good home, and gave my 'phone number as the one to contact.  I got home from night shift one morning to find around 50 messages on my answering machine offering to take the imaginary parrot off my hands.)

Anyway, I immediately unsubscribed (I've got plenty underwear, thanks very much), but then I realised that I've been receiving quite a few emails from various places of late, one claiming to be from Sainsbury's telling me that I'd won an air-fryer.  It didn't look like a genuine Sainsbury's email address so I never clicked on the link, but I'm beginning to wonder why my email address seems to have suddenly become accessible to so many different 'businesses'.  Usually such things would automatically go straight into my Spam file, but now pop up in my inbox with increasing (and disappointing) regularity.

I've had emails telling me I've won the Lottery (or some contest I haven't entered) or been awarded compensation for something.  (I don't open them, but the subject title carries the contents info.)  Or I've won some fancy technological device or other, or a delivery company has a parcel at their warehouse for me, and all sorts of other nonsense.  And just who the hell is Senator Gary Peters?  Never heard of him before, but he keeps emailing me.  (I haven't bothered opening any of them.)

Any other Crivvies been experiencing anything like this recently, and if so, what's the most outrageous or ridiculous one you've received? 

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