A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: “Your booking is confirmed!”. This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn’t booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw… it was a stupid marketing email…

This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don’t use Clink Hostels.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    I get these too.
    The best part is that they keep getting added to my Google calendar. I have the option tuned off in my Google account settings, I report them as spam as soon as I get them, but I still get pop up notifications from my Google calendar reminding me of my “trip”.

    • thepreciousboar@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      That’s because gmail automatically adds .ics files to your calendar. I don’t even think there’s a way to disable it. I checked and my solution was to not use gmail for those things. For spam emails luckily I don’t have this problem

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Weird, mine asks me if I want to add things to my calendar still, up by the header, same spot it puts the “is this spam” question box