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at the bottom of spam emails there's usually a "Remove Me" type of link...

Then you submit your email for removal from the mailing list...


I think it's just a cute way to let the spammers know who is still reading these emails.

When you send them your e-mail they just send you a shitload more spam.

Why do you read spam?

well... to unsubscribe?

Just bounce the emails back to them and the computer that sends 'em will think that your email address is no longer in use. So it stops sending them to you. It does work believe me.

Get better spam filter!

I only use that link if I remember signing up for the email in the first place.

Not really; apparently some spammer has started using my work e-mail address as the sender for spam, so I now get a flood of failure messages and they all go directly to my trashcan and the sender never sees them. Spammers don't use repliable sending addresses. Besides, why do they care if an e-mail address doesn't exist anymore? The price of an e-mail is arround a thousandth of a cent.

WetWired, you're a pretty intelligent person, maybe you know the answer to a question that has been bugging me for a while.

Why is it that e-mail spammers and pop-ups and pop-unders and pop-arounds and everything else get worse and worse every year? Do people actually get influenced to click on pop-ups and buy whatever product or service is being offered?

I can't remember one time that I've ever intentionally clicked on a popup and bought something or opened a spam-mail and bought something.

Because none of us are internet noobs. Internet advertising is big business. I've seen people think that they won a free iPod because they shot a baloon or some dumb shit in a pop up window and so they go and fill out all the shit. I don't know. As long as one out of every 1000 people actualy buy something they are proably still making money.

How can any intelligent being believe they will get a free ipod for clicking on a balloon?

Some people have very poor mousing skill, and thus believe that everyone else does, too. That, or their computer is so slow that it looks like they're jumping arround randomly. Generally, though the people that click on those are the same ones who have their computer so full of malware that it barely moves; I'm sure you know of at least one person like that, so...

Speaking of popups, I just got a pretty funny one.

Haha.. that is pretty funny.

It works if it's a computer on the other end that is sending the spam. They must be programmed not to send spam to emails that bounce it back, as it puts them under the impression that they musn't be in use anymore.

But if it's a manual spammer...well, then you're screwed...

I'll show you a lymeric, you piece of shit whore.

What I'm saying is that usually, there is no legit address for it to bounce back to. Apparently this one spammer rotates through their list of e-mails to spam as the list of senders.

Well...it works for me...:D

And how did they get access to your work email addresses to use them to send spam??? I've heard of viruses doing that (mydoom etc.), but just to send spam to other people???

I theorize that they just use addresses from the list of addresses to send the spam to.

Fair enough.


I keep on getting spam from some online magazine...I bounce it back, it comes by a different address...I unsubscribe from what I haven't subscribed to, and it still comes...