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Very odd Ipsos and other notifications…

May 28, 2026 02:55AM
I’ve received several notifications about shops from a Ipsos scheduler RT from “notifications@ipsos” that are nothing more than gibberish.

The subject is normal, and I’d love to know more about the assignment, but the body of the email looks like it’s in Greek or another Cyrillic alphabet.

Tried reading it on 2 completely different devices and operating systems.

It happens with all the emails from that particular scheduler (but not others) and I can’t even reply to let them know, because the return address is the general notification email address (that doesn’t get replied to).

Sure hope they weren’t hacked.

Anyone else had this happen?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/28/2026 05:07PM by SBP.
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May 28, 2026 03:25AM
Any message that looks like it’s in Greek or another Cyrillic alphabet is deemed spam and immediately deleted from my computer.
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May 28, 2026 05:00PM
TBH, I’m surprised by the increase in job notifications sent that don’t work with the tech involved.

Got another today that included a link to a Google file without permission to open it.

Another one contained a link to a YouTube post I couldn’t access because YouTube now requires us to download an invasive app, provide personal info, and pay a monthly subscription to access. I’ve had a profile and albums of saved posts for a decade without that. I’m not going to give them my personal info now to access a curated collection I created.

I guess it’s TikTok teasers until someone creates a better way to share original work and good music as everything is additionally monetized.

It’s not just the startup MSC’s either.

The landscape is shifting very quickly. The average cost of creating and maintaining a secure app would be daunting for a small company. I see the IC schedulers trying hard and sometimes forgetting the details like…OS/system compatibility and privacy settings as they juggle things we don’t even know about, while we do the same.
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May 30, 2026 02:01AM
Perhaps this is our wave of the future. The other day a company I purchased a cell from at conversed with me back and forth in English for weeks. Then when the final resolution email came it was in French and my refund was in Euros.. I wanted to be able to precisely read the instructions on how and where to get my reimbursement money in English and US dollars.. It took them a week to email me back and apologize. Either their human staff handle issues in several languages or the AI Bot got confused about where I lived.
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May 30, 2026 04:57PM
AI is a tool that’s far from perfect, yet people are using it without a thought.
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May 30, 2026 04:59PM
I finally got a legible email from the scheduler mentioned above offering a huge bonus with a same day deadline. Guess they figured it out.
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May 30, 2026 05:00PM
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2026 05:00PM by SBP.
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May 30, 2026 05:00PM
@sandyf wrote:

Perhaps this is our wave of the future. The other day a company I purchased a cell from at conversed with me back and forth in English for weeks. Then when the final resolution email came it was in French and my refund was in Euros.. I wanted to be able to precisely read the instructions on how and where to get my reimbursement money in English and US dollars.. It took them a week to email me back and apologize. Either their human staff handle issues in several languages or the AI Bot got confused about where I lived.

Good to hear you got that sorted out.
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