Hey folks! Anyone else being spontaneously "subscribed" to RW newsletters?

[PCIntern]

During the past three months, I have been inundated with “subscriptions“ to newsletters of the financial, economic, political, social, and religious right wingers. Now I’m not talking about idiocy like the commentators on CNBC or FOX Business. I’m talking about slanderous, malevolent, grotesquely false statements about Democratic politicians, particularly the president, who are “grossly undermining” the fiscal stability of the United States, and how you were going to be driven into financial ruin if Democrats are allowed to be elected to office… any office, high and low.

I spend at least a minute a day unsubscribing from new lists upon which I’ve been placed, and it’s beyond annoying. In addition to that, the headlines are enough to cause my blood pressure to spike a little bit. I won’t repeat any of them here, but I know you all get the Idea.

Obviously, I’m not alone, but thought I would share this with my good friends here at “the” (sic) DU.

As they ask at the end of a long or seemingly endless moderator’s diatribe on MSNBC, “”Your thoughts?”

[TwilightZone]

1. Have any acquaintences who would have signed you up?

That used to be a thing on social media and in right-wing groups. Not sure if it is anymore. They would sign up people they knew were liberals or Democrats for spam RW e-mail. All it really takes is one, and that one sells the addresses to the rest.

[FreeState]

2. Check your credit cards

This happened to me when my credit cards was stollen - they sign you up for a boatload of them so the order(s) gets hidden in the mess and can be shipped before you notice.

[PCIntern]

3. These are emails online.

[FreeState]

8. Yes mine were stolen online n/t

[canetoad]

4. Your information has obviously been sold

Possibly by a site you trust or deal with. Too late to do anything - the horse has bolted.

Unsubscribing only proves that the email address is current. It's a lose - lose situation. I don't receive much email spam but I immediately create filters to delete any that I do. Still, you shouldn't be having to put yourself out for these bastards.

[TexasTowelie]

5. That was happening to me and I would not get deleted from the mail lists when I hit unsubscribe.

I found a more successful tactic to get removed from the mail list immediately instead of waiting up to ten days is to hit the Reply link, write the request to be unsubscribed, and include an image of Melania in one of her artistic modeling poses--it expedites the process. Some may argue that Melania doesn't deserve that treatment and normally I would agree, but her personal record as Third First Lady is cringy.

[PCIntern]

6. Funny and clever

[TwilightZone]

7. Another possibility.

Your e-mail address might have been in a data breach and then sold.

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about it, though you can check to see if your e-mail address has been compromised here:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

If your e-mail is listed in any breaches, it's a good idea to change the password for the associated accounts.

[PCIntern]

12. Thanks! Great suggestion!

[Red Mountain]

9. I got subscribed

to my RW Senators newsletter. At first I was annoyed but took it upon myself to read it just so I knew what he was up to and considered important.

He's everything I thought.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Thankfully, No

If I were getting what you have gotten, I'd be most annoyed.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I sure did--twice! Even unsubscribing didn't work.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218617619

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