Garmin account issues

[Bcleck90]

Long story short, I set up an Inreach for the first time this morning and paid for a monthly plan / SAR 100 plan. Now I have several unknown charges to my credit card and my email is getting flooded with spam.

Anyone else had this issue with Garmin? I called and of course they "haven't had any issues that they're aware of". I had to cancel my card and am trying to unsubscribe to the emails now.

 

[ODB]

Oof ... i've subscribed to InReach for many many years and only get the monthly bill.

Be careful about unsubscribing to emails that the recipient is suspect. When you do that, you are essentially vetting your email address as valid and the numbnuts who spammed you will sell your email address as a verified address (on the black market of course). I delete and add the address to a block list - never click unsubscribe.

 

[Bcleck90]

Thank you for the advice @ODB. I’ll start doing that now. My emails piss me off but I can change it if I have to. The Garmin deal has me a little concerned to give them another card at this point.

 

[Rotnguns]

Oof ... i've subscribed to InReach for many many years and only get the monthly bill.

Be careful about unsubscribing to emails that the recipient is suspect. When you do that, you are essentially vetting your email address as valid and the numbnuts who spammed you will sell your email address as a verified address (on the black market of course). I delete and add the address to a block list - never click unsubscribe.

Very good advice, here.