Yeh, an oldy, I remember it from Billy Connolly years ago. He's getting on a bit now, always made me laugh
You've gotten yourself onto some of those mailing lists with associated data, such as your age. Probably filled out a web form somewhere and now an unscrupulous cvnt has sold your data and it's in the wild. If your mail provider allows the creation of alias addresses (virtual email addresses that just forward to your main inbox) then create these, use for suspect web forms, and delete them every now and then. Better still don't divulge your data in forms that you don't trust (aka almost all of them). For any forms that you need longer access to then create specific alias just for that website.
Tuesday In a bar that faces a giant car washRead full Lyrics Santa Monica Boulevard at night Sheryl Crow!
If, as you said in your original post, these are being delivered via email then yes. You've somehow provided your information, including your age by the sounds of it, and it's gotten out into the wild. It could be that you've only opened an email about an age related product that was sent by a company that logged your interest and has sold on your email address as part of a list that is interested in related products. Once one of these scraping low-life organisations have your valid email address they see you as fair game to prod and poke to get responses to further pigeon hole you. Opening an email containing an image, could even be one you can't see, can ping a database that puts an open/read marker against your email address. If it allows it set your email client to not display images by default. Only allow images for senders you trust, you can opt to do this once you've opened the email. Your email address, verified as valid, is worth feck all. 50,000 email addresses verified as valid is a marketable commodity. Add some additional targeting data to that and the value multiplies. It's a shit world we live in. Or you could have provided your information in good faith into a web form and the holder of that information has sold it on or had a data breach. GDPR means absolutely nothing to companies that operate outside relevant jurisdiction. It's like gun licences and armed criminals.
No drama. I found a setting on the phone to say, "no advertising". As far as I can tell, that has done the trick. I scanned Google News, which was always the worst for my funeral ads, the weather, and a few random apps - nothing! I've got nothing to moan about now (well, I'm sure that I could come up with something!) and so I'll shad'up my face. My mind is clearing! And I have the V85 Guzzi as my screen background - that's going! I'll put back the Multistrada! Under the insurance rehab scheme, I could get taxis to Cheltenham Hospital, The Vale Hospital and The DHS Job Centre in Gloucester. I am thinking of asking for a taxi to Riders and I'm sure they'll agree, won't they? But the cafe will be closed and I can't buy anything until I get my licence back. I might put that one back until the coffee bar can open...
I know of someone who has a funeral business and the mark up on things is eye opening. Obviously there are fixed costs such as certificates etc but as far as I am concerned the rest of it is a waste of money. While I can agree that funerals are a form of closure, feelings should be made known before the end.
I may be in a minority of one but I couldn't give a monkeys about how much they make. In wouldn't want to do it.
For some reason I'm not plagued with funeral plans? However apart from telling all of my 4 children the song that I want played at any memorial gathering. After that I've said... "Just trample me flat where I fall" Steve R
I have told my wife I don’t give a damn about my funeral, roll my corpse out into the street and let the council get rid of me for free.
Yep, i think i have mentioned it before i have paid up front for my wife and myself £3000 in total. Picked up when dead, taken to morgue, when certificate is released, taken to an unknown crem, up in smoke no service, no mourners, ashes then released to next of kin. No double standard freeloaders involved, RIP. PURE Cremations.
