Email Spam With No Unsubscribe Option

[t6dpilot]

So I am just now starting to get email spam that do not have an unsubscribe option at the bottom of the email. Clever basturds.... They always come in batches and as long as I can unsubscribe from them, they stop for a while. I fear that these are going to get out of control. Anyone have an idea of how to stop the barrage?

[Rick Lee]

If it's from a business you've head of, the unsubscribe link usually works. If it's a real spammer, the unsubscribe button just confirms for the spammer that your email address is good. Then you're screwed.

[RANDY P]

Ladders.com is horrible. Set an inbox rule to delete all messages that perpetually offend, no spam box, straight delete.

On the phone, using a spam filter is worse since they are allowed to leave messages even tho the phone doesn't actually ring. I'd rather decline the call manually (answer then hang up) so they can't leave VM VS. having to look and see blocked call, then dial into VM, then delete the message.

rjp

[Starless]

Well I've been receiving an Email from Trump-medicare-plans.com for the last few weeks. Since I don't need any medicare plan right now, I went to the bottom to unsubscribe. The "Site Can't be Reached" page popped up and my anti-virus kicked in stating "Threat Secured. We've safely aborted connection on www.elliornic.com because it was infected with URL:Phishing". So, how would i unsubscribe to something like this. Anybody hear of this? It may be legit, but for now i just delete it. Sorry to hi-jack.

[Steve Carlton]

What if you just click the spam button in your email vs trust the sender to honor your request?

[sammyg2]

Don't unsubscribe.

Block the sender, or the subject, or whatever you can but don't respond to the scam. That only makes you a bigger target.

[Starless]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

What if you just click the spam button in your email vs trust the sender to honor your request?

I did just that.

[sammyg2]

On a side note, a few years ago my main supplier of bearings and power transmission equipment and parts must have hired a snot-nosed business major, because they started sending me e-mails of unsolicited advertisements.

I won't mention any names but their initials are APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES.
I had been doing business with them for nearly 40 years all the way back when they were known as King bearing. The company I worked for at the time spent $millions a year through this supplier.

So i unsubscribed and the crap stopped, for a while.
But after about a month it started right back up.
I couldn't block them because mixed in with the spam were legitimate business communications.

I told their sales rep about it and he said he's pass it along but didn't think it'd do much good. Nice.


On what planet is pissing off your core customer base a good business plan?

[dad911]

Gmail does a pretty good job of filtering spam. We went from 30-40 spams a day each to just a few.

You can also register your own .com, then have an email like firstname@lastname.com, and they will host emails for $5/month per email address.

https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

[A930Rocket]

I’m always leary of clicking unsubscribe as well. On my iPhone, I’m not sure how to block a sender as spam. Anyone know how? On my laptop, it’s easy.

Speaking of spam, I’m amazed at how many emails actually are spam and are in my spam folder. It’s got to be hundreds per month. They still pitch for acne, STD’s, boner meds, dates, etc.

[jyl]

Iphone mail: swipe left, more, mark, move to junk

Do that enough and you'll stop getting that sender's emails

[id10t]

Originally Posted by dad911

Gmail does a pretty good job of filtering spam. We went from 30-40 spams a day each to just a few.

You can also register your own .com, then have an email like firstname@lastname.com, and they will host emails for $5/month per email address.

https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

$5 per mon get me my own VPS with storage for images, etc. but it does require a higher level of skill.

If you do this, be sure what ever provider you use (and gmail does this, and easy to configure various SMTP servers for this) is set up to use extended addressing. This lets you use a character - usually a "+" (my systems it is a "-") as a delimiter in the user part of the email (on left of @)

So username@domain gets delivered to username, and username+tag@domain get delivered to username - and the "+tag" part stays as well. You can then filter on this, etc.

You can also turn the whole of the "username+tag" into a stand alone address and bounce or forward as appropriate.

MidwayUSA did some shady stuff during the Great Ammo Panic and so I closed my account and unsubscribed. The mail kept coming. Probably still is, but I don't know - I set it up to forward me-midway@mydoamin to Larry Potterfield's publicly published address. Granted, I'm sure he already gets copies, and someone else filters that mail for him, but it was either larry or "abuse@midway" and midway doesn't have an abuse mailbox set up.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Don't unsubscribe.

Block the sender, or the subject, or whatever you can but don't respond to the scam. That only makes you a bigger target.

This. Clicking "unsubscribe" is akin to "Thank you sir, may I have another"

[RKDinOKC]

Refuse to click unsubscribe. The spammers have been in business long enough that they are makiing their stuff look like it is from someone you know and trust.

If you examine the headers of the unsolicited messages you will find they are from a different server than the ligitimate "receipt" or sales messages you are receiving. That lets you block them by allowing sender on legitimate and blocking domain on the sales spam.

[t6dpilot]

Thanks for the tips guys. Guess I was sending the message, "thank you sir, may I have another." I'll try to block them using the tools in my inbox. Or just switch everyone over to my gmail address.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by t6dpilot

Thanks for the tips guys. Guess I was sending the message, "thank you sir, may I have another." I'll try to block them using the tools in my inbox. Or just switch everyone over to my gmail address.

I did exactly the same thing you did, thinking I was accomplishing something.

Oops.

The spam got to the a point that I ended up closing that account down and shifting to a new service.

[stomachmonkey]

Open gmail account.

Fetch other mail through it.

Gmail has some of the best out of the box spam filtering going.

Microsoft Exchange is on par but it'll cost you.

Let the tech do the work and move on with life.

[t6dpilot]

how to you fetch other mail through your gmail account?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by t6dpilot

how to you fetch other mail through your gmail account?

Settings->Accounts->Check Mail From Other Accounts

Add the account credentials and away you go.

You can reply as the imported account and even send new mail as the imported account.