Today I received among my junk emals, an email greeting from the Prime Minister of Malaysia and his family wishing me a Happy CNY.
The first thoughts that came to my mind are - Is this a SPAM mail that will corrupt my whole computer if I opened it? And how on earth did they manage to get my email??
Several Malaysian dailies reported this on their papers so now I know it is not a scam or virus. It gives one a mildly fuzzy and warm feeling that the Prime Minister is embracing technology to reach out to his people but it unsettles me that his PR dept has chosen this way to send his best wishes. Good intentions aside, surely there is a better way to do this without infringing on people's privacy and invoking the thought of unwelcomed calls selling unwanted credit cards??
He should get a twitter account.
2 comments:
Political move.. :-p
Gong Xi Fa Cai!!
It takes much more than an email greeting to get people over the line! And discounted by 100x if the email address was not voluntarily provided.
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