Spam unsubscribe

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I've been getting a ton of spam for the last month. There's always "click here to unsubscribe" at the bottom.

I don't see any reduction in spam, if anything more, and think now that it's more of a verification that it's a real email to send more spam to.

I'd pay $10/month to never get spam.

[sc_rufctr]

Yep you're not alone. There must be a lot of people out there doing nothing but scamming.

[fastfredracing]

Its made every form of communication bunk. Shop phone, home phone, cell phone, e mail inbox, and mail box .
I hope they figure this out some day . Its such a waste of resources and time .
It sucks having to wade through 120 e mails to read the 3 that are pertinent to me . You can unsubscribe, and mark them as junk all you want, but they keep on coming

[rwest]

Someone must have found a way around Googles blocking in the last couple months. I’ve been getting hundreds of “dating” and girls that are interested in me emails. They almost always go straight to spam, but I do check my spam on occasion to see if anything that I want accidentally got sent there and now it’s a pain to check.

I only half joke that if someone ran for President with their only platform being to get rid of robo callers and spam email, they would win by a landslide. “What is your position on foreign relations? I don’t know anything about that, but I’m going to get rid of spam. What is your position on gun control? I don’t have a stance, but I’m going to get rid of robo callers... etc, Two terms for sure!

[JackDidley]

I was unsubscribing for a while. It would help for a few days and the spam would come back just as strong. I finally started a new email address a couple years ago and I get zero spam to it. I dont use it just anywhere. I use the old one for some things but it mostly collects spam. At least 10 per day.

[id10t]

Clicking the link only lets them know your address is real and actually looked at. Makes it more valuable next time they sell it.

What I do is run my own mail but many other providers support this to some degree or another. Anyway, I use "address extensions" (RFC5233) and so every company I do business with gets their own unique email. IE id10t+pelicanparts@mydomain

GMail supports this BUT messages only go to "all mail" - not your inbox.

Another gmail trick is that they ignore . in addresses, so some.user@gmail is the same as so.me.us.er@gmail - you can maybe play with that one.

One thing to be aware of with the + extension thing is that some dumb front end designers don't know RFC822 and what really make a potentially valid email address and so there are lots of broken validators out there... so I use a - instead of a + on my domain's config.


When I start getting spam (my local tax collector and florida fish/game licenses are the top guilty ones) I can start having fun l like sending rejects, or my personal favorite is to look up the CEO etc. of the guilty company that sold my info or got hacked and redirect all the email to them.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by id10t

when i start getting spam (my local tax collector and florida fish/game licenses are the top guilty ones) i can start having fun l like sending rejects, or my personal favorite is to look up the ceo etc. Of the guilty company that sold my info or got hacked and redirect all the email to them.

ROFLMAO!
Very nice. I'll bet they love that.

[masraum]

I do "unsubscribe" occasionally, but I only do that for sources that I know have my email because I have it to them (had to provide it when I ordered something) and when I think they are legit enough to actually unsubscribe me.

Anything where I don't know how they got my email address, I do not click any links, and I use the spam/junk filter in my email to flag them.

[blucille]

my sweet wife decided one day to unsubscribe from a variety of spam. I was away from home at the time.

Ever since then, she has received 10x the amount of crap in her inbox, no matter what I've tried, I can't seem to cut down on the quantity of spam she gets.

[A930Rocket]

Out of the blue, I recently started getting spam from Command Cooking. Every time I got it, I checked the email address, and it was always similar but different. I keep blocking it, but with different email addresses I don’t see any end in sight.

[sc_rufctr]

There's also a whole bunch of scammers active on "X" & IMO most of them appeared shortly after Musk bought Twitter.

I get around 4 new "Follows" a day followed up with at least two new messages.
(I'm not verified, I've been on Twatter for about 6 years & I rarely post or comment).

[id10t]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Out of the blue, I recently started getting spam from Command Cooking. Every time I got it, I checked the email address, and it was always similar but different. I keep blocking it, but with different email addresses I don’t see any end in sight.

You need to look at the headers

The "from" name/address and date/time sent arent regulated and are trivial to fake

Headers will show server information
, but actually blocking or filtering mail based on them will be mail client dependent- best to do on the mail server if possible

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I am thinking something like a gofundme to raise money to both find the C-suite members of corporate spammers and pay people to legally harass them in public, picket their homes, whatever it takes, all in a legal, ethical way. But their lives must be made hell.

[NickSixx]

I’ve had pretty good luck with http://unroll.me (no affiliation).

You still have to go through some manual effort but it’s faster than manually unsubscribing from everything that hits my inbox.

I also have a “junk” email address that I use if a website forced an email and I know I won’t need to really login or use in the future. That probably saves me from having my primary email address spammed too badly.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by blucille

my sweet wife decided one day to unsubscribe from a variety of spam. I was away from home at the time.

Ever since then, she has received 10x the amount of crap in her inbox, no matter what I've tried, I can't seem to cut down on the quantity of spam she gets.

Don't open or respond to them. Email providers have spam filters which should pick up the bulk of same addresses I would hope. Mark every one consistently and hope for the best?.

[jhynesrockmtn]

Gmail does a pretty good job of dealing with SPAM. A few get through and a few go to the SPAM folder that shouldn't, but overall it works well.

[911 Rod]

First thing I do when I get to work is delete spam. Never open or click and most of all never unsubscribe. Any communication with them lets them know you are real.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

I am thinking something like a gofundme to raise money to both find the C-suite members of corporate spammers and pay people to legally harass them in public, picket their homes, whatever it takes, all in a legal, ethical way. But their lives must be made hell.

Easier to use the USPS

https://it.slashdot.org/story/03/04/15/2027225/dos-attack-via-us-postal-service

[cstreit]

If you use gmail they do a pretty good job. They also offer automatic email alias'

So if you have to use your gmail account, lets say its "myname@gmail.com" you can use "myname+somethingelse@gmail.com" and it will automatically forward.

I use these when I'm forced to put an email in. You can later stop if forwarding. So I have

Cstreit+netflix@gmail.com
cstreit+pelicanparts@gmail.com

You can also then see who is forwarding your data as other websites use that email address.

[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by NickSixx

I’ve had pretty good luck with http://unroll.me (no affiliation).

You still have to go through some manual effort but it’s faster than manually unsubscribing from everything that hits my inbox.

I also have a “junk” email address that I use if a website forced an email and I know I won’t need to really login or use in the future. That probably saves me from having my primary email address spammed too badly.

Thanks. Will give it a try.