A week ago, I got two e-mails from IMVU: one welcoming me, and one asking me to confirm my address for registration. I didn't recall ever registering there. They said in their confirmation e-mail: "If you did not sign up for IMVU, ignore this email. We will not continue to send mail to unverified addresses."
That appears to be an outright lie. A day later, at exactly the same time of day, they sent me a notice that I had a private message... from them... offering me a special deal on credits. Four days later, they sent two more e-mails about an hour apart, again requesting that I verify my e-mail address. Each one bore the claim that they will not continue to send mail to unverified addresses.
Since you have to start an account with their helpdesk system just to complain, I sent an e-mail off to their press contact asking if they could help so I wouldn't have to out them as dishonest spammers.
Then the day after that, they sent me an e-mail telling me my IMVU pet missed me. So, apparently they send plenty of mail to unverified addresses and just lie to people.
I guess I have to go on the offensive, so I'm calling them out as spammers. IMVU... FU.
UPDATE: The press contact passed on my mail and I received a response from IMVU stating that the account has been disabled and giving me a person to contact if I continue to receive mails from them. They didn't make it easy to stop the flow of mail, but once I got hold of someone, they took appropriate action.
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