Has anyone else been getting deluged with spam from ToysRus? The images in the emails are resolving to an rsys1.net domain which is owned by Responsys, an email marketing company. I’m guessing that is a fancy way of saying “shithead spammers”, because I’ve never signed up to receive any email notices (I never do) and have tried to unsubscribe from this particular “newsletter” twice now. The third time I received it I forwarded it with a complaint to the ToysRus webmaster (and postmaster and admin and abuse addresses).
Now it’s been four times, and I’ve decided that enough is enough and I won’t be doing any holiday shopping at Toys R Us at all this year. I encourage everyone else to do the same.
I will comply (just like every year!)
Toys”R”Us has been using Responsys to send spam since it started its own online store after the Amazon.com split. According to http://responsys.com/utility/index.asp?page=legalnotices all e-mail sent using Responsys must be permission based. I have complained directly to Responsys about this, but I never received a response. It appears Responsys does not care if the e-mail sent using its services is permission based. Responsys is a spam enabling company.
Responsys (rsys1.net) spammed me and must have got my email address via dubious means as I never opt-in to any email marketting and if you saw the email address to which their spam was sent you would understand, with 100% certainty, why they must have obtained it via dubious means.
As a user who has had to abandon a pre-paid email account due to said account being barmbarded with spam to the extent where I received upto 10,000 emails a day, rendering the account totally useless, I do not appreciate, condone or grace with custom any business that directly engages in or uses the services of a third party involved in the distribution of spam either knowingly or unknowingly.
For one thing, it demonstrates a complete lack of respect for privacy which is in direct contradiction to the claims these websites claim via their privacy policy’s. Do you really want to trust these people with YOUR private details when there are thousands of other websites out there who will offer you similar or even better deals while still somehow managing to respect your privacy?
Because of this complete lack of respect I use these kind of companies online forms to inform them that I will be boycotting doing any business with them and explaining why, hoping that by pointing out that this is bad publicity it can’t be good for their reputation or income to use illicitely obtained email addresses.
Because I received this spam because I allegedly opted into some marketting campaign - which I most certainly did not - I will use their webforms to get the point accross rather than reply directly to their email as by responding to their email directly all I do is confirm my email address as a target for further spam.
I urge anyone else who receives email via Responsys to politely inform the company they claim to represent, which in your case is ToysRUs, that you will not be gracing them with custom due to the complete lack of respect for privacy their marketting firm has.
I’m now receiving lots of notices from vistaprint.rsys1.net.
Hi Puck and other annoyed posters!
REally glad I found this thread after googling through 10 miles of spin from Responsys.com.
Earlier today I too was blatantly SPAMMED by Responsys with some advertisment for some crummy webmail service called “yousendit.com”. (I’d rather they didn’t).
What’s more the spam arrived at a strictly ‘clean’ business email address that has never seen the light of day and certainly not signed up to anything anywhere.
Whilst looking for anyone else who’d been spammed by these Responsys jokers I found the following hilarious statements related to their nasty spammy services which are good for a huge dose of irony:
“Responsys.com emphasizes that the firm is a permissionbased marketing service on the Net. This means the company won’t conduct a customer’s spam campaign.”
Oh my sides!
Here’s another bit of spin:
“Responsys Expanding Efforts to Take the Internet Back From Spammers; Four Areas Seen as Critical to Alleviate Unsolicited Email”
Oh the humanity!
So a bunch of lousy spammers want to rid the world of spam, good for them.
Good thing is that I notice that they claim to have a “London office” which unlike the usual foreign spam makes them in breach of the law and indeed accountable:
Anyone wishing to complain against being spammed by Responsys in the UK can complete an official form here: Go on, you know want to, I am…
http://www.ico.gov.uk/Home/complaints/privacy_and_electronic_communications.aspx
Go down the page to “Privacy and Electronic Communications complaints form”
I’m sure we’re all pretty sick to death of nasty spammy companies like Responsys operating under the guise of “legitimate permission based marketing”. To me that’s even worse than some crook phishing for my bank account details.
Finally, for google, let me just say once again that today I was spammed by a bunch of jokers called “Responsys” who have lovely website full of shallow spin - responsys.com
RESPONSYS.COM ARE SPAMMERS AND SO ARE YOUSENDIT.COM FOR USING RESPONSYS
Thanks
You may wish to check with all the people you do business with that email from Responsys. I suspect that they may be selling customer/partner email addresses of their clients to other clients. Luckily, I save all email logs (including subjects) and have data going back 2 years so they are probably about to get into allot of trouble.
This is ridiculous, you’re all talking rubbish!! If they have your address, it’s because you’ve signed up to something or clicked something - no other reason. All this talk of “obtaining addresses by dubious means” and them getting in “lots of trouble” is as crazy a conspiracy theory as they come. I find it hilarious, why not just call the company and get added to their global suppression list? Much easier to bitch online about it I suppose…
Toys ‘R’ Us could only have received my email address during the time they were affiliated with Amazon.com, who do have it. Every online store account I have is set to “do not contact me” and all newsletter options are unchecked.
Toys ‘R’ Us must have taken my address from Amazon’s database (that’s not dubious means, that’s downright WRONG) and then started sending spam at me.
And then when I told them to stop sending, they ignored me and kept at it, again and again.
I approved your comment because you can speak freely here, but you’re utterly wrong.
No such “global suppression list” phone number was provided, and the “unsubscribe” link provided also did not work.
A user who did not sign up for email like that shouldn’t have to make a phone call to get off a mailing list. They should not have to opt out of something they didn’t want to receive, especially from a supposedly legitimate company like Toys ‘R’ Us. If that was the way things worked, we’d be making a dozen phone calls a day to unsubscribe from every company’s mailing list ever.
Now that I’ve dealt with your points directly, I’m going to deal with you directly: You sound like a spammer trying to legitimize their work.
Hey
Just received something from these lovely people. It seems that they are not just spammers but also scammers. I got an email from CA Anti virus stating my subscription is due. Now i know i dont use CA, and i know i dont have an subscription.
So a warning to everyone. Please be wary when clicking links in these emails to either “opt-out” or respond cause it most likely means they will mark your address as active.
At work i manage and clean out the spam filter every now and then and when you look at how they try get email address it’s quite amazing. they will sent to stepen, steven, stephen, stepn, stphen ect ect.
As soon as they get a response from an address it’s marked as active. The others can be discarded.
Also, they dont always take your email from a specific site. as shown above it’s sometimes a brute force where they send emails to combination to a set domain (hotmail.com, gmail.com).
Either way, i wish they would roll over and die.
Cheers
Stephen
I got a Trend Micro renewal email and clicked on the unsubscribe at the bottom fine print of the email.
It took me to a Responsys page and made me fill out all name, email, and newsletter options just to unsubscribe?
Then I got a email saying I was now subscribing to more!
Tried finding a way to opt out or complain at responsys.com. nothing.
tried calling their san bruno office. voicemail.
Then I found this discussion.
I filed a complaint on responsys with the FTC under the CAN-SPAM Act. You should too.
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
On a side note, I bailed on Trend Micro back in 2004. I’m glad I did. Their product was good back in the PC-cillin 2000 version days, but they got crappy like Norton, so I took all the corporate machines I’m in charge of off of it and never looked back. They suck.
Nod32 and Kaspersky are starting to suck too. So maybe AVG Free 8.0 for now.