Chris Saul's Blog

Thursday September 27, 2007

Traditional Ramadan meals

KFC and McD's!

Stop spamming me, Dubai!

I'm getting a bit fed up with spam from Dubai organisations.

One of the companies who obtained my details thanks to my buying an apartment has clearly sold them on to real estate companies. I now get a spam SMS and at least 5 spam emails a day offering to buy my property or sell me another one.

For about two months over the summer I was getting up tp 15 text messages a week, at all times of day and night, in Arabic, from something called 'HHIE'. The Gulf News cleared this one up in this article. Thankfully these have stopped. Whilst I laud the intentions of the HHIE and am sure they'll do a fantastic job, I do hope they don't use this kind of advertising again.

I am now getting about 5 texts a day in Arabic from Dubai Cares, a new charitable organisation. I think Dubai Cares is a great project that will doubtless do a lot of good, but sending lots of texts to a non-Arabic speaker seems an unusual promotional tool to employ.

Hopefully there's some way of opting out of the text message ads, but I'm not too hopeful.