ttj - Tom Jones

I've just received yet another spam from Uber.  I opted out.  Yes, I've opted out several times before.     The spam from Lenovo is more interesting.  They are very determined to piss off their customers, and their geniuses in the spam department have come up with the following wheeze: the spam is dressed up as a "rewards statement", and according to their legal theory, can now be counted as "transactional" and therefore mandatory.  Never mind that I didn't get any reward points this month, nor did I ask to enroll in their rewards scheme, nor did I consent to use of my email address for anything except specific communication about a laptop purchase I did a while back. Note how they taunt the spam victim with "This is not a marketing or promotional email. You cannot unsubscribe as this is a transactional email".  If anything is asking for some anti-spam litigation, this is it. Around 2013-2014 I did take legal action against a dozen or so spamme...

Do spammers wise.com, formerly spammers Transferwise, have any respect for their customers? No.  You have to complete an idiotic Captcha to log in, as an existing customer.  How much of your life have you spent identifying objects in pictures such as traffic lights, boats, or in this case, "mountains or hills"?  There is no good reason for it.  It amounts to free training by your labour for an AI.  It reveals disdain by the company for its customers. As I sit doing this, the following is my view: This is a "mountain or hill".  The reason I am not hiking it, or ski-touring it, right now, and am instead in front of screen training someone else's AI for free, is that the dipshits at spammers wise.com (formerly spammers Transferwise) don't know how to authenticate their own customers.

 I previously quit Transferwise because they were terrible terrible spammers masquerading as a payments / currency transfer service. Recently, I reluctantly signed up for a wise.com (the new name for Transferwise) account, remembering how persistent and irritating their spam had been. I got my wise.com debit card and it basically works.  But now I find they are stabbing me in the back.  The contact details I gave for management of my account, they are using to spam me. Assuming wise.com actually want to be a payments company, and not a spam company (you can't be both), why do they do this?  Presumably it takes a lot of effort to make something that looks like a payments service.  Wouldn't it make sense to actually just be a payments company, rather than doing all the work that would be involved in being a payments company, and then, for some self-defeating, pathologically idiotic reason, just being a piece of shit common spammer instead? Since a payments card is...

I recently opened a new account with wise.com, formerly known as the spammers transferwise.  This is part of my futile effort to have a basic payments capability. wise.com seem to be following the trend of thinking that the more convoluted they make all their processes, the more "verified" things are.  Processes should involve as many SMSs, smartphone cameras, selfies, time-wasting, assumptions, and glitchy crap that doesn't work, as possible, to reduce the probability of successful account setup. This journey started when I decided to look at the Transferwise card as a possible payments card.  I had previously abandoned Transferwise in favor of Currencyfair (also spammers, as it turned out), because Transferwise kept spamming me.  But I still had the account details. Login with my old account details didn't work.  The only option was something like "I've forgotten my password" to do an account rescue.  But I hadn't forgotten my password.  wise.com, ...