Sheesh; I wonder what “Incautious follow-up” looks like.
@wade Y I K E S
@hacks4pancakes @wade someone needs more hugs
@lil_lost @hacks4pancakes @wade I've been seeing these kinds of spam too. they try to sound annoyed that you ignored their first email, as if it was sent by hand and not machinegunned using something like mailgun

@Viss @lil_lost @hacks4pancakes @wade
I had a series of emails from one guy who emailed me three times within 10 days with an increasingly exasperated sequence of messages, as if this guy was Best Man at my wedding and I was ghosting his requests.

What did he want? To invite me to leave the job I was "obviously burned out" on, and join the wonderful world of...fast food franchise owners.

It's good to be one of the people who can just add sender domains to a spam blocklist used by hundreds of thousands of my company's customers.

@threatresearch @Viss @lil_lost @hacks4pancakes @wade Oh good I thought I was the only one who's background in cyber security obviously meant I wanted to franchise a crappy pizza place or a boxing gym.
@wade I had a sales person follow up with me in that style. I told them in no uncertain terms the company would not use their product, and was blocking all following emails.
@wade omg is that real?
@wade if you did anything other than reply "Why Don't You Fuuuccckkk Off" you deserve a medal, or at least an early, good company-paid lunch.
@wade we didn't know you yesterday, but we all know you today
@wade Those are the sorts of emails that get companies put on permanent ban lists.
@wade Note that even if you use an email client which blocks remote images/tracking pixels, you'll still get these ones suggesting they're aware you saw it. They're completely automated, after these bad idea emails are written, they're totally on autopilot.
@wade I had an “incautious follow-up” where a recruiter waited two weeks and then sent this image without any comment. Edgy.
@wade I'm more curious what the professional AI side of him is wanting to say.
@wade Is ... is this ... person ... really gaslighting a sales lead? 🤢

@wade
honestly I don't hate this one that much. they're obviously trying for self deprecating humor and acknowledging the artificiality and perverse incentives that drive such communications.

I mean, it doesn't really work and still feels intrusive and unwelcome, but a hair better than the sales calls that demand you play along with whatever phony urgency they're acting out.

@wade

Why do you have to do this to Amit, Wade? He sounds like such a nice mail bot!

That unseemly display of his unprofessional human side is a reaching hand, a plea for help!

As Gretta would say, "How dare you?".

@wade If Amit shows up in my inbox, I’ve got a response for him alright… he’ll probably wish I’d have taken your “daring” approach instead.

@wade People that use drip email campaigns like this do not merit a response.

Some guy has been messaging me on Facebook for months trying to get me to join some military support group, and I recognized the style right away. Haven't responded once.

@wade And that's how a domain gets added to the corporate SPAM filter...
@wade aaaaaand "Mark As Spam". (walks away dusting hands)