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.
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.
Twenty-eight days... six hours... forty-two minutes... twelve seconds. That, is when the world will end.
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...
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...
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.
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 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...
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