Over the last couple of months I’ve been receiving a significant amount of spam from an organization called QAI Global. QAI Global seems to be related to QAI India, an IT group located in India. They seem to offer business training services and courses and, coincidentally, they also offer business ‘conferences’. Presumably these conferences are a cheap way of advertising their own business training courses. Look out, QAI, that’s the kind of thing that got several companies into deep trouble a few years ago.

This week they’re touting a conference on Project Management and “building best practice and business excellence”. What is it with these conference idiots who think that spam could possibly be considered as ‘best practice’? Why would I or any sane business person do business with a firm like QAI that spams the people it wants to impress? And then, why would I want to commence doing business with a firm who won’t listen to a potential customer when they say, ‘remove me from your mailing list’?

What’s most annoying is their snide little quip at the end of their message:

“Since India has no anti-spamming law, we follow the US Bill, which states that mail cannot be considered spam if it contains contact information, which this mail does.”

Sure it does. They provide phone numbers for countries like India, Malaysia, Singapore and China. Then they also provide phone numbers within India for Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. It’s a run-on sentence, sure, but unfortunately it’s also misleading. The email message provides contact details, definitely, but you won’t be able to use them for anything useful (like unsubscribing from their ridiculous email barrage).

I’ve tried the unthinkable, of attempting to unsubscribe using their ‘unsubscribe here’ link, but of course this hasn’t helped. Their conferences@qaiglobal.com email address doesn’t seem to work in the slightest. It seems it doesn’t matter how many times I email them asking to be removed from their spam list, they don’t want me to go. So they keep sending me their junk about project management, best practices, and paying them significant amounts of money to go and hear them speak about such matters.

I just don’t get it.