Best to not hit their unsubscribe button, If in Gmail theirs will popup and you can use that.
Clicking “Unsubscribe” in a fraudulent email will not result in your email address being removed from the scammer’s email list. What it WILL do is one, or both of the following:
1 – Verify for the scammer that your email address is in fact a valid and active address (which will have the unwanted side effect of making your email address even more valuable to the scammer in the future).
2 – Take you to a malicious website that will download malware onto your computer and/or trick you into falling for a scam offer of some sort.
The best way to handle SPAM and other forms of unwanted email is to simply mark them as “SPAM” or “Junk” (depending on which word your email provider uses) and then delete them without even opening them.
Of course there will be times when you open one of these emails by accident, regardless of how careful you are to avoid them. When that happens, simply mark the message as SPAM or Junk and then delete it.
Whatever you do, DO NOT click on the “Unsubscribe” link (or ANY link in the email for that matter).
Seems I spend half my life unsubscribing to stuff I never subscribed to. They go away for a few days and come back. It seems spammers have nothing better to do than torture people. They need a new goal in life. I have kitty litter that needs changing.
Unsubscribing to all those email lists you get subscribed to because tp clicked on something to look at it, CAN be frustrating, and, tiresome. But, maybe not to the degree Leroy is taking it.
Little Caesar 9 months ago
It takes a micro-milli-nanosecond to “subscribe” – but it can take days to get “unsubscribed.”
Yakety Sax 9 months ago
Best to not hit their unsubscribe button, If in Gmail theirs will popup and you can use that.
Clicking “Unsubscribe” in a fraudulent email will not result in your email address being removed from the scammer’s email list. What it WILL do is one, or both of the following:
1 – Verify for the scammer that your email address is in fact a valid and active address (which will have the unwanted side effect of making your email address even more valuable to the scammer in the future).
2 – Take you to a malicious website that will download malware onto your computer and/or trick you into falling for a scam offer of some sort.
The best way to handle SPAM and other forms of unwanted email is to simply mark them as “SPAM” or “Junk” (depending on which word your email provider uses) and then delete them without even opening them.
Of course there will be times when you open one of these emails by accident, regardless of how careful you are to avoid them. When that happens, simply mark the message as SPAM or Junk and then delete it.
Whatever you do, DO NOT click on the “Unsubscribe” link (or ANY link in the email for that matter).
snsurone76 9 months ago
There are scammers who “subscribe” unsuspecting people without their knowledge. And they seem to be able to bypass every anti-virus device.
Macushlalondra 9 months ago
Seems I spend half my life unsubscribing to stuff I never subscribed to. They go away for a few days and come back. It seems spammers have nothing better to do than torture people. They need a new goal in life. I have kitty litter that needs changing.
Troglodyte 9 months ago
Been there, done that. Er, make that: still there, still doing that!
markkahler52 9 months ago
Two feet facing, but Loretta’s seem out of perspective
bobpickett1 9 months ago
Amen
sarahbowl1 Premium Member 9 months ago
I know that feeling!
Out of the Past 9 months ago
This is also addressed in Pearls before swine today.
anncorr339 9 months ago
It is so true
WilliamVollmer 9 months ago
Unsubscribing to all those email lists you get subscribed to because tp clicked on something to look at it, CAN be frustrating, and, tiresome. But, maybe not to the degree Leroy is taking it.
ToneeRhianRose 6 months ago
Haha! (＾▽＾)