22 may 2018

22 may 2018

John Bjarne Grover

Yesterday 21 may 2018 my email account was blocked by a request from some 'guce.com' who prompted me for an ACCEPT in the form of an OK on a button for their privacy policy (terms and conditions). It was written in italian only and had no choice option for language and the alternative to 'OK' was a button called GESTIRCI sth. It opened a page where one could make one choice about sth in the mail when going on holiday or sth like that. It was not possible to open neither the email account or many other pages without pressing the OK and I eventually had to do so - then the problem disappeared. But I had not agreed to anything, I had only confirmed that I had received the privacy conditions - so if they took it for a signature on an agreement, it would have been signed 'under duress'. When I looked up the three basic meanings of GESTIRE, I understood why it could have been that it was in italian language (strangely, there have been quite a number of italian mails to my INbox in recent weeks, most of them looking like typical SPAM) since I could have signed 'under durex'. This could have referred to an event with some females under transparent raincoats.

The problem eventually disappeared and I could send the reason why I had turned the computer on - for a registration of a copyright issue. I dont know if somebody could have spied on my writing earlier in the day. This morning I sent an email to Yahoo Customer Care about the possible abuse the day before and when I later opened the email again, there was a reply from AOL in some combination with Yahoo, if I got it right. I wrote in a reply that I had not agreed to anything, only confirmed the receipt of the privacy policy conditions. No sooner had I exited from that email, it was gone from the inbox and another mail came in its place - and the AOL etc letter had slid behind the SPAM box. Could be the other mail had been there in the mean time - in which case they suddenly swapped. There was only 1 minutes difference between these two mails.

I hope this story is not about organizing swindle.