How can email spammers get a dose of their own medicine when the unsubscribe option doesnt work?

Question

I am baffled at how spammers get access to my email address. I diligently click on the unsubscribe option at the bottom of each email. However most of the time they are from the same organization promising to remove your email from their list. I am left to wonder if it is even worth the trouble of consistently doing this. Moreover some emails dont even have that option. I sometimes wish there is a forum or website out there in the WWW where it is possible to add email addresses shown where the message is coming from or where these phishers ask unassuming consumers to reply to in the hopes that once enrolled they may get their own spam mails and clog their own networks. Am I alone in this plight?

Answer 1

I opened a "junk" email. I forward spam to it, then do up an email, copy theirs completely, then send it to them... at least 10 times, usually 20, sometimes 50 times.

Answer 2

Don't click on those unsubscribe links. That just lets them know that they reached a valid email address. Instead, forward the emails to your ISP's spam dept. if they have one.



If you enter a lot of contests or use your email for signing up for lists and things like that, use an email acct. separate from your main acct.

Answer 3

Every time you hit unsubcribe you identify yourself as an active account. That will be sold to other companies.



Use another account for a time.... your ISPs one or another freemail account for a time. The only people who have your main account is friends or family. And not ones who send jokes and such. Eventually your spam will whittle down.

Answer 4

personally,I wish I knew how to hack into the systems of these agencies, and really get back at 'em.