{"id":5974,"date":"2023-09-25T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2023-09-25T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:22:35","slug":"bank-starts-spamming-about-loan-offer-even-before-sending-welcome-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/bank-starts-spamming-about-loan-offer-even-before-sending-welcome-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank starts spamming about loan offer even before sending welcome kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a bank account in India, you will be familiar with the daily Spam messages you get from them about their loan services etc. HDFC sends about 3-4 messages a day not just via email but over Whatsapp too. It had gotten to the point where I ended up blocking their number to stop the spam. Same with Citibank and other banks.<\/p>\n<p>But the best is yet to come, I opened a new bank account at a different bank and I have not yet received my welcome kit. However, I have started receiving emails offering me &#8220;8.45%* exclusive home loan starting rate&#8221;. This is after I specifically selected that I don&#8217;t want to receive messages about their offerings etc.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will just create a filter to move all these messages to the spam folder automatically, otherwise it gets annoying to receive so many useless messages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n<p>PS: Not naming the bank because I don&#8217;t like people knowing where I have accounts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a bank account in India, you will be familiar with the daily Spam messages you get from them about their loan services etc. HDFC sends about 3-4 messages a day not just via email but over Whatsapp too. It had gotten to the point where I ended up blocking their number to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}