Santa’s Inbox Is Full… of Fundraising Emails?!
PSA: Santa Is Not Donating to Your Campaign
As many of you know, I pitch in to help Santa now and then - logistics, scheduling, the occasional “where did we leave the reindeer?” situation.
And to do that, I have a few very official sounding email accounts:
Nicholas.Claus@…
Santa.Claus@…
(You know… for professional North Pole correspondence.)
Well.
Some enterprising fundraising vendors apparently scraped those addresses, because this week my inbox has been FLOODED with messages starting with:
“Nicholas, you haven’t donated to my campaign yet this year. Will you give me a chance to explain why I’m asking you to make your first donation today?”
I found it interesting that a number of candidates had the exact same thought and sent me the exact same email around the same time. It must be fundraising Elf magic. So, I finally replied and asked where I could send coal - and politely informed them they are now on the Naughty List for stealing Santa’s emails.
Actual Santa reacting to the flood of spam emails. Photo courtesy North Pole.
But honestly… if I am getting fundraising spam to my Santa accounts, it makes you wonder:
How much money is being raised from accounts belonging to… the North Pole?
“Yes, I told the vendors they’re on the Naughty List. You can’t just scrape Santa’s email and expect no coal.”
At this point I’m convinced a lot of the digital fundraising universe is just campaigns yelling into the void at fictional characters.
Anyway — if you see “Nicholas Claus” donating anywhere, please know:
It wasn’t me
It might’ve been a reindeer
The email vendor is DEFINITELY getting coal
And I can't get rid of FOTUS emails from my Spam no matter what I do
I donate to Berinie Sanders via Act Blue once and now I am absolutely hounded on all media (and text tho not so much decently)