I received an email from the SNCF. Actually no, I got a spam from the SNCF. Well... not quite, I received a spam that tries to pretend to be the SNCF.
Really, this is great art. This email could have gone unnoticed if I didn't regularly check my spam box to see which big advertisers are getting caught in Gmail's net. Upon entry, I saw nothing but fire:
But it's still a bit strange that the SNCF customer service allows itself to send me a "surprise". So I open this email, and there, it seems that the gift has become "potential". It's not going well.
A detail also concerns me, the presence of a shipping email address having nothing to do with the SNCF. Maybe it is an acquisition campaign led by the SNCF? Let's see what the footer says, it's sometimes very instructive.
Did you see the first sentence? "The SNCF is neither the organizer nor the sponsor of this survey. Well, if we had wanted use a respectable brand to attract the trust of recipientswe wouldn't have done it any other way!
But we won't stop there! Let's go further and see what this "investigation" has in store for us.
And now, unfortunately, I waited too long to write this article. In the meantime, the contest page has been deactivated (the whole site in fact) and there is nothing left in the Google cache. In fact, behind the email was a nice co-sponsoring page, again branded SNCF, with well-hidden sponsors, only one of which was an advertiser (in the field of "cooking", long live the relationship with travel) and all the others, dark acquisition "brands".
The strongest part, and I would have loved to take a screenshot, was the contest rules page, also with a nice SNCF logo, but of course, it was a completely different actor who was the organizer of the said contest.
If I see any more of the same style, I'll be happy to start posting some "Badsender of the week" again (and I'll take screenshots before the site goes offline).
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