Could this be innocent spam?

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My DH was showing me something on his laptop and he got an email notification from eharmony marketing. He didn't seem bothered but closed it down and carried on with what we were looking at. So I wondered do you need to be a signed-up member to get those emails or do they send spam type emails to non-members? Does anyone know?

That has happens with us before and I certainly haven't had any urges to go on match dot com, so I going to vote spam on this one....

If it's from a marketing address it's generally unsolicited

Thanks so much for your replies. I had thought that might be the case but I thought I'd ask just to get it out of my mind!

I have received dozens of eharmony emails and I've never even visited the website.

That's weird, I never get emails from sites I haven't visited. Even my spam folder has stuff from sites I've signed up for.

Depends you could sign up to a sign which is affiliated with e harmony and then not untick emails from 3rd parties.

Yeah I've had loads of these - along with invitations to select a charming Russian bride and enlarge my (non existent) penis.

I still get marketing emails from online dating sites I was a member of before I met my husband. That would have been at least a decade ago now. We've been together 9 years and I stopped using those accounts probably a year before we met. I've (obviously) long since deleted my account, have unsubscribed from emails, reported them as spam, etc. I still get them. It's quite possible it's totally unsolicited or he did have a real account long in the past, but I wouldn't on the surface be too worried unless you have reason to believe there is more to it than that (and it doesn't sound like you do).

I must get a dozen of these a week. Never done OLD, never intend to. It's spam from somebody who's got a shed load of email addresses from some mailing list they've hacked and sends them out to everyone.

Iv had loads of emails from eharmony when iv never even been on there website!

I get so many OLD marketing emails, based on accounts I had half a decade ago before meeting DP. Also get tonnes and tonnes of penis-lengthening spam despite never having had a penis I wanted lengthened.

Unless there's other things bugging you I wouldn't let this bother me at all.

I get them and I've never signed up to the site.

I googled "L'oreal True Match foundation" once and started getting emails from eHarmony etc! I have also received Viagra emails after looking at vitamins supplements

Spam....
Ive never signed up for viagra either sites but seem to get plenty of those too.

If anyone saw my spam/junk box they'd presume i was into to fake amazon orders,eharmony,PPI.Online pharmacy....and the african man stating he's just put $10000000000000 into my account hahahaha

I get OLD spam and I've never been on any dating website

I've received emails for special offers for viagra...despite not having a penis.

I echo many other posters. Never done OLD but, get shitloads of spam from dating sites

Yup, spam, if you don’t click the box saying don’t share on many sites they sell your email address. I get shit like offers on viagra, I can assure you I’ve no interest in it never mind looked at a site offering it.

Spam. And if he was going to cheat, he’d use a hook up site. Not some romantic match making one.

Thanks again everyone. I suppose what threw me was that it wasn't a dodgy type of email for viagra or foreign brides, it seemed like it could be legitimate but the fact loads of you seem to get that type of spam too, there's obviously nothing to see here. As you were