I don't know how they did it. But somehow a spam site called http://contactofindia.com managed to send a spam mail from my email ID to most of my contact list. I am annoyed but do not know what to do about it. If I add this email to the phishing list, then I end up adding myself in the list since I am the unfortunate sender. I have changed my account settings and hope that the same doesn't happen again.
(Click on the screenshot for the bigger picture and notice how the sender ID is mine)
Showing posts with label Mountain of a Molehill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mountain of a Molehill. Show all posts
Slideshare.net a slide sharing site played an April Fool's prank on its users. They somehow fudged with the view counts on the slides and informed the users via email that they are SlideShare Rockstars. Also, they prompted the users to brag about their achievements on twitter along with #bestofslideshare, so that later they could track how many people fell for this prank.
Some people found it funny and acted cool. But I must say that many were annoyed and have criticised Slideshare pretty heavily on twitter and the net in general. For those who have serious slides on Slideshare it might have been pretty embarassing for them and their annoyance can be pretty must justified. Slideshare reps Jonathan and Dan are trying very hard to console their users
Hope slideshare.net recovers from this fast. A lesson well learnt for other social sharing sites.
BharatMatrimony.com comes up with a new slang "Dicount".
To BM: "I like the dicounts you give to ur users, ur dicounts are more interesting than the baldies on your site, ur dicounts rock!!!" 
PS I am not registered on BharatMatrimony.com, a friend forwarded it to me, don't get any weird ideas.
If you want to receive unwanted SMSes then BidFriends.com is just the right place for you.
BidFriends.com is a site where you can place bids on mobiles, PSPs, laptops etc, the most unique bid of all wins. Obviously you need to create an account with them and disclose your mobile number and other details blah blah blah. That is when the bombardment of SMSes will commence. You think it will stop after couple of days, but it goes on. Irritated, you logon to the site to delete your account. Voila! no delete option available. You send them an email. They will respond saying "We would definitely process your request. We would be very happy if you could share us the reason for quitting the services offered by Bidfriends. So that we can increase our quality of service." Cool! you might respond explaining why you want to delete your account from this crappy site or you might not. A week goes by, you continue reciving messages. You then write a mail again threatening them with a blogpost like this. Eureka! your account is deleated! No more SMSes. You may feel you are free now. Nirvana seems close. Bam! After 20 days you again recieve similar SMS and that is when you sit down on your computer and compose a blogpost similar to this one.
Adios!!!
This is not what I generally blog about. But bad customer experience is too much to take. I love online shopping the comfort the ease. I have shopped at homeshop18 and ebay without any hassles. However, I faced the worst experience at Indiatimes Shopping. My worst shopping experience began the day I received a Rs 1000 gift coupon to shop at Indiatimes Shopping in a article writing contest.
I decided to purchase a basic webcam from Shopping.Indiatimes.com. I selected a webcam worth Rs. 1299 and decided to pay the amount through the Rs. 1000 gift coupon and the excess from some other means. The payment gateway took me to the payment option of my choice I paid Rs 299 and then the payment gateway was supposed to take me back to my order page on Shopping.Indiatimes.com, but Bingo! their server experienced a downtime. So I was Rs 299 poorer and my payment did not reflect in Shopping.Indiatimes.com. After following them twice I was told that within 24hrs the payment will reflect otherwise it would be refunded. Cool! These things happen.
I got the webcam few days before Diwali, too busy with the festivities I did not check it. Today I realized that they have send me webcam worth Rs 745 MRP. I have been robbed of Rs 299 +Rs 255 worth gift coupon Shopping.Indiatimes.com. Moreover, his is not the webcam I ever wanted, it has such a bad quality. Now they have registered my complain and it will take 3 working days for them to come to a conclusion.
I guess I need not say no more. Worst shopping experience ever with Shopping.Indiatimes.com. Guys do not waste your time at this site, better try homeshop18.com or ebay.com.
This is the printscreen of my online order form for this damn webcam. Right click and view image for a clearer picture.
And below is the image of the webcam details on the box that was delivered. Sorry for bad quality. Right click and view image for a better view
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