Is It Just Me, or Does Everyone’s Junk Email Look the Same?
- Darren Hart

- Jan 18
- 2 min read

Open your Junk Email folder and it feels less like an inbox and more like a badly run casting call.
The same names keep appearing: Ben Mitchell, Danielle Bell, Emily Douglas, Julie Robinson, Mia, Olivia Smith, Savannah etc etc
Same names. Same emails. Every. Single. Time.
It’s always framed as a “quick introduction” or a “short note” offering the holy trinity of modern business miracles:
Web services
Digital marketing
SEO
Lead generation
Or some magical formula guaranteed to double your revenue overnight
And yet, strangely, every email looks exactly the same.
No branding. No logo. No credible website link worth clicking. No personality.
Just the familiar line:
“If you’re not interested, reply ‘No Thanks’ and I won’t follow up.”
Which, of course, is complete fiction.
Ignore them, block them, unsubscribe, mark as spam, and like clockwork they return. Same message. Same promise. Same name. These operators are the cockroaches of the inbox.
If your entire marketing strategy relies on pretending to be “Savannah” for the 47th time this month, it might be time to rethink the strategy.
And here’s the part that really doesn’t add up…
If their digital marketing, SEO, and lead generation services are so effective, why do they need to rely on cold email outreach in the first place?
Surely, if they were as good as they claim, they’d be flat out servicing leads generated from their own websites.
Where 3 Clouds Collective Is Different
At 3 Clouds Collective, we don’t cold outreach. We never have.
We don’t send unsolicited emails pretending to be someone else. We don’t scrape contact lists. And we don’t rely on copy-paste templates sent at scale.
Every piece of work we do, whether it’s:
Branding
Websites
Design
Marketing
Or financial management services
— comes from:
Our websites
Returning clients
Referrals and word of mouth
That’s it.
If someone finds us, it’s because they were already looking for what we do, not because we slid into their inbox uninvited.
Important Note
If you ever receive a cold outreach email claiming to be from 3 Clouds Collective, it isn’t us.
No exceptions.
Because good work doesn’t need disguises, fake names, or inbox ambushes to get attention.
Anyone else seeing the same names on repeat? 👀



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