Sending spam emails to people
I was emailed twice from JF (contact's initials for privacy) - a 'Business Development Executive' without me reaching out or requesting anything prior. They reached out to me via my email in an IG profile, and proceeded to send me messages without any way to opt out. I made a complaint with the FTC as they aren't following the CAN-SPAM act, and could be charged up to $51,744 per non-compliant email sent (I personally received 2), and asked to be removed from the contact list and never to be contacted again.
Thankfully they complied and didn't even respond and are hopefully now in compliance with the act but it's just insane to me to think these companies can just scrape people's personal data and think it's okay to use as some type of lead generation... I hope they do get a fine and learn the same lesson many other companies also need to be learning!