Canon 30D EOS Digital Camera

I had a problem with my Yahoo email account recently. I was sending emails but not receiving them from other Yahoo accounts. I ran through several standard checks to establish if there was a nasty lurking on my system. Nothing.

So I decided to look in my Bulk folder to see what was in there...

511 spam emails in a 24 hour period.

"money to shop", "laptop on us", "consumer research", "your credit score has arrived". Whatever happened to the Viagra ones? Mind you, the "four free bags of coffee on us" is rather tempting. I have 173 of this particular one.

Given that the average size of each email is 6k, that is a lot of internet bandwidth.

Product Test Panel - Your 'affiliates' are nothing but spammers who are clogging the internet with false hope offers. Now, I am NOT recommending that you do this yourself...

One of their 'affiliates' was advertising a "$1,400 Canon 30D EOS Digital Camera". Perhaps Canon could send them a nasty notice for bringing their name into disrepute or something like that. I thought I would notify Canon about this so went to their web site and clicked on 'Contact us' link. The only place I could find to 'contact' them was on their "Come and work for Canon" page. So I sent them this little rant:

This is NOT a job application but I can find no other way to get in contact with someone at Canon regarding the hundreds of emails I am receiving advertising one of your products.

These are spam emails which are clogging up my inbox and are bringing your good name into disrepute. Whenever I see your adverts/logo/products it reminds me of the painful process I go through every time I want to read a REAL email.

If someone would care to drop me an email at xyxyxyxyx@yahoo.com I can forward one to you.

I am getting very annoyed about this and I am sure I am not the only one who is receiving this negative impression of Canon.

Best regards,
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Clicking on "Post resume" brought up the link to their page above...

Which brings me to one thing. How many times have YOU tried to send an email to a company and clicked on the 'Contact Us' link (see what I mean?) only to be directed to a totally irrelevant page. BUT that is the subject of a future rant.

My response to the spam? As they were advertising a camera I thought they were perhaps the best people to ask why my photograph of the greyness that is the Netherlands recorded in such a large file 2.34mb. So I sent it off to them from one of my anti-spam email addresses... many, many, times. Now, as I said, I do not recommend that you do that but imagine if everyone did...

BTW the Canon 30D EOS Digital Camera looks very good. If only I could ask Canon some questions about it. Update on my spam for the next 24 hours soon...