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.
My father’s house still gets junk mail and allegedly “preapproved” credit card offers addressed to my cat.
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.
So, I’m officially immortal
Someone who lived at my current address back in the 80s and 90s and who died almost 25 years ago still gets mail delivered here.
But also, does this mean that people with very common names are nearly second death immortal? Should I change my name to John Smith so that I don’t die that second time until the very last piece of mail gets delivered to the very final John Smith that ever exists? I need to know. I NEED TO KNOW.
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.
And for the past 40 years, people and companies have been selling their “user data” from one entity to another, so it really doesn’t require any particular one of them to last more than an average human lifetime.
Granted, I’m 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure the comment you replied to was really only making a joke, so no pedantry is really required.
the comment you replied to was really only making a joke,
Did the cartoonishly evil laugh give it away?
I had heard that the second death is when everybody who knew you has died, and the third is the last time somebody speaks your name. The spam stopping would have to be the fourth death.
