Thursday, October 25, 2012

Got Spam? Don't Unsubscribe

We all get them. No matter how good our spam filters are they get through... SPAM.

At the bottom of all these messages is a nice enviting link telling you that if you do not wish to receive any more messages from whoever sent it just click.

Wait... DON'T DO IT.

When you do click to unsubscribe (as if you were subscribed) what you just did was tell the sender that in fact he / she does have a good address.

Now that verified good address will be added to other spam sender lists, even sold to yet even more companies who send unsolited email.

So just delete the message.

If too many of them are getting through take a moment and forward it to your email provider so they can take steps to add the sender to the spam filters.

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