IGN is literally spamming my e-mail address now.
So I recently decided to clean up the mass amounts of newsletters I am signed up to. IGN being one of them, I've gone through and clicked the Unsubscribe button at the bottom of every e-mail I get from them. This works great for other subscriptions, but I noticed IGN kept sending them. They used many different unsubscribe forms, and I went through all of them -- from manually removing myself from each individual mailing list by unchecking every single box (which in later unsubscribe attempts, I noticed were rechecked) to using the "unsubscribe from all mailing lists" form.
Every single unsubscribe attempt sent me a spam unsubscribe confirmation/advertisement. It acknowledges that I wanted to be unsubscribed, so I damn well know they got the unsubscribe request, but it also included advertisements for various pages on their website. A sort of, "sorry to see you go; how about you check out these links." In my multiple unsubscribe requests which they never seemed to follow through with, they didn't miss a single attempt to follow it up with one of these advertisements.
Which, whatever, that was fine. I kept unsubscribing and hoping they would eventually get the message, and the amount of e-mails I've received from them has drastically slowed. Until today, I received a literal spam message from them.
One Dollar* Can Buy You $5O,OOO Coverage
From: Globe Life Offer <ign@mail.ign.com>
Contains some advertisement to get me to buy life insurance. The fuck?
Normally when something like this arrives, I assume it is forged. Not actually from IGN, but some other website wanting me to think it's IGN so that I trust their spam. However, this e-mail too contains an unsubscribe link that points to IGN.
I even checked the raw e-mail to verify that this came from IGN servers and not a third-party claiming to be IGN:
Received: from igndlad.mail.IGN.com (igndlad.mail.IGN.com. [74.201.49.19])
With tons of references too ign.com all throughout, and absolutely no references to any other domain. It undoubtedly came from IGN.
So, yet a-fucking-gain, I clicked unsubscribe. It goes to the IGN domain and immediately redirects to a third party life insurance website. IGN literally has an unsubscribe page set up on their domain and server that redirects people to a spam website that they use to spam their customers. Now, I never received a single spam e-mail like this from them before today. The previous spam had been about game news and such, so I presume this spam is reserved for people who attempt to unsubscribe.
I really, really take issue with this morally and wanted to get the word out there. I manually sent in yet another unsubscribe request to this third party website, and I'm just hoping IGN doesn't start selling my e-mail address to even more third party spam services.
I have tried everything I can think of and gone so far out of my way to get them to stop, and I think it's crossing the line now that they have resulted to sending actual spam in a last(?) attempt to squeeze money out of me for no longer wanting their advertisements in my inbox.
