VUG Junkmail - "Be in the Scarface Game" <== WTF???

[phantomdesign]

On 11/18/04, I recieved my first piece of junkmail from Vivendi Universal Games. I was a little confused and very annoyed, but I decided to ignore it. It was something about Men of Valor, HL2, and Lary Uncut (a porn game I think).

11/23/04 - More junkmail! The subject is "Half Life 2 - Now Available" It hasn't even been a week since the last one.

And then on 12/07/04 I got the strangest piece of junkmail from vivendi....it has to be from the stupidest, most moronic marketing director yet. It's titled "Half Life 2 Out Now, Be in the Scarface Game Now" I believe that is completly accurately typed verbatum including punctuation and capatilization. "Scarface game?"

Today I look in my junk mail and noticed they've actually sent me even more junkmail. On the 8th, there's something about the Chronnicles of Riddick. I don't know where they got my email address from, but for a company like this, they should understand that this sort of spamming is a bad buisness practice.

P.S. No, I haven't used that email adress to sign up for anything in the last 3 weeks.

 

[Jesus Lincoln]

Yeah they are making a scarface game, egm pre-pre viewed it a few months back. Im not too excited

looks like GTA, you can drive and stuff like that, thirdperson

 

[phantomdesign]

ohhh...a game called scarface. I thought they were saying HL2 was a scarface game. I'm still annoyed that VUG is spamming me. I'm glad I bought it off of a steam.

 

[weyl]

...something about Men of Valor, HL2, and Lary Uncut (a porn game I think).

WTF? You don't know about leisure suit larry? not quite porn, but a lot of big...thinggies and innuendo.

 

[Kakashi]

hmm.... wrong forum kids

 

[Asuka]

They never sent me anything untill i game my email to them. I get the exact same mail i just asked for it. Just incase i missed some info they email me with all the new games that are coming out by them.

 

[Thread]

i recently started getting vivendi junk mail too. it doesn't matter though... i get tons of other crap totalling an average of 20+ junk emails per day.

 

[f|uke]

hmm.... wrong forum kids

Yep. Wrong forum.

So they send you spam. Is there no link in the email to remove yourself from their list? Did you check?

 

[BetaMaster]

i recently started getting vivendi junk mail too. it doesn't matter though... i get tons of other crap totalling an average of 20+ junk emails per day.

Please trade emails with me. I get 100. If I don't check my email every day, I'm screwed.

 

[Asuka]

Lol seems like you guys dont know how to control your emails. I have a yahoo email and i only get about 1-3 sometimes mostly none junk mail. And iv had this email for years.

 

[Teta_Bonita]

ya, yahoo pwns! 250 MB of free storage and a spam blocker! woot! (and no, I wasn't payed to say this. )

 

[phantomdesign]

I know the spammers have gotten a hold of the certain email address, but that doesn't excuse VUG from using my email address.


P.S. Hotmail recently got 250MB storage too.