The Rowe Family Blog

Fox Gourmet started spamming me recently (rather heavily).  At first I couldn’t figure out how they got my real address.  Then I realized that I had dealt with the company for a warranty repair of a Black and Decker steamer.  They did a good job in handling the warranty.  In fact they replaced the unit with a better unit than the one we had purchased.  However, I never once opted to get further email from them.  I hope that they will honor my request to be removed from their annoying mailing lists.

Not long ago I did a free annual credit report.  This isn’t some sort of scam; there is a law that requires credit reporting agencies to provide a report to people once per year.  Luckily I didn’t use my real address for this task.  Unfortunately I used the same address for the three major credit agencies and so I don’t know who the spammer in the bunch is.  The spam is to purchase a credit report from True Credit but I know they aren’t one of the major agencies that you can access from annualcreditreport.com.  They claim that I requested this email but I was very careful to ensure that I did not opt-in to any future communications.  I’m getting rid of the address that I gave them.