tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10095344358764955902024-03-06T00:09:45.674-08:00CreepyMarketingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009534435876495590.post-5078243664647616192013-11-21T10:06:00.003-08:002013-11-21T10:06:49.188-08:00By far the creepiest thing I have ever gotten in the mail.So today at work I received a letter, addressed to me from "Vernon Hill's Ill" which seemed vaguely familiar to me, so then I glanced at the letter again and noticed a that it came from North Texas.<br />
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So at this point I am more than a little concerned. I open it up to see this. </div>
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Now at this point I am more than a little concerned I decide well I should probably figure out what is going on. I am getting what almost seems like taunts in the mail. I do a quick background on the domain which was registered by Domains By Proxy, which only heightens my concern. </div>
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So to recap. </div>
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-I am sitting at work, I get a letter in the mail, </div>
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-The letter is not from a company or person </div>
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--The letter contains only a card with "know your trivia" my first and last name attached to a website which is got its information obscured.</div>
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--A sticker with my name on it.</div>
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The website is a flash animation, (at this point I have scans running on my machine malware antivirus etc) so it asks me very strange questions, "How many captains did the enterprise have", " How many men walked on the moon", "what planet did Leia tell Grand Moff tarkin the rebels were on"</div>
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Then at the end it displays a CDW logo and asks a dumb question along the lines of "What is cdw the best at" with some options none of which were "Being creepy and stalkerish". </div>
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Let me know what your thoughts on sending the IT professionals creepy stuff in the mail, because it seems to me that it is a good way to lose business.</div>
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