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I often get unsolicited emails from companies trying to sell me something. Usually all I need to do is click “unsubscribe” and I am then apparently deleted from their mailing list, but sometimes I am asked to enter my email address as part of the process – I have not done this on the basis that if I do it will confirm that they made a hit with their computer generated email addresses, which would then lead to lots of more junk mail, so I just delete their emails every time. My daughter enters a spurious email address – what is the best response to such an email?

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If it’s a well-known and/or a respected company, clicking unsubscribe and then entering your email address will definitely work. For unsolicited, do not enter an email address and do not click unsubscribe — doing so alerts scammers and fishers that an email address is a good one.

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If it’s a well-known and/or a respected company, clicking unsubscribe and then entering your email address will definitely work. For unsolicited, do not enter an email address and do not click unsubscribe — doing so alerts scammers and fishers that an email address is a good one.

Thank you, you have confirmed what I thought.

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You should consider adding the sender to your block list. Then any further email will go to junk/spam.

--Joe

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I have been fighting spammers off and on for years. According to SpamCop you should NEVER acknowledge your existence to unsolicited emails by unsubscribing or clicking any links in the email. Once they find out you’re alive then it’s game on. Obviously you would do different for emails that you have subscribed to. You can try to put these guys on your block list but spammers are like locusts and once they consume one resource, aka get caught and blacklisted, they move on to another. I report all my unsolicited emails to SpamCop. It takes time to resolve spam issues but the more people that participate then the better the effort will be. One last resort if it becomes intolerable is to ditch your email address and get a new one. I wish I had better news.

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I am 100% behind everything that Bender writes, above all, never, EVER, click on any links in spam, NOT EVEN to “unsubscribe”. I have found that even legitimate senders can’t always handle unsubscribe requests. I have had to be rather forceful to get myself off legitimate lists; one such sender admitted that my (forceful) request had revealed that their “unsubscribe” button was, unintentionally, a placebo.

Spam was not much of a problem, containable at least, until mid-January, since when it has peaked at as many as 40 per day, all what I would describe as “faux-medical”, ancient Navajo remedies for hearing loss, vision loss, and, of course, the usual curse of advancing years for the masculine gender.

I discovered SpamCop, have posted all my spam there – they only take reports not aged by more than 48 hours. Miraculously, coincidentally, the said spam has vanished from my Inbox. It can’t just have been me! Let’s see what happens, but I am quite minded to send SpamCop the $ 15.00 they ask for, fuel for their engine, as they put it.

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