Several years ago, I was a Realtor for one year. Somehow, I don’t remember how, I got signed up on a list under the name “Henry”. My name is not Henry, but Henry gets an ungodly amount of real estate spam, both emails and texts under that name. Blocking them does nothing. But, it’s not just real estate anymore, now Henry gets political spam, too.
Henry will be sent spam decades after I die.
My father’s house still gets junk mail and allegedly “preapproved” credit card offers addressed to my cat.
By adding my email address to EVERY spam list, I will ensure my immortality!!! Bwahahaha!
Span lists have only existed for about 40 years, even if one of them has been active for all that time is quite a stretch to assume any single one will go on for more than an average human lifetime.
My wife’s parents died 7 years ago and we still get stuff for them, at our house no less! I have no idea how that happened, but I do wish it stopped. The latest is i am getting a txt message every few weeks for the past few months on my work cell for my wifes mothers apparent debt of an unpaid gas bill. The levels to understand how any of that makes sense is beyond me. It can’t be mine, we only have an electric house and is another company. Why 7 years later? Whos using her name? Why is my cell phone number somehow the phone linked to this? Im to afraid to click the link just in case it is fake, but the more txts i get the more real it feels since ive never had consistent txts from the same number over and over like this.
Still getting calls for Charlie 2 years after changing my number. Although there’s some speculation that while Charlie Sr is deceased, Charlie Jr is alive, kicking, and in a not insignificant amount of debt.
Good news, we’re all gonna live forever!
