i need help to unsubscribe from spam?

Question

i got this spam named sexually explicit blablabla... they are so many that i curious to see how i can get unsubscribed

i found on the bottom of the message they wrote "use this link to unsubscribe h++p://acune.ch/un/unsub . php"

could you check if its fake? so far i remember, i never subscribe to them. how can i be subscribed?

i do have a website though, and the whoisguard is already expired.


ps.: please dont get me wrong. i really need help.

Answer 1

The second biggest scam in the universe is those unsubscribe links. For a good majority of them, they do not work at all. For those that do actually bring you to a page, it is a verification that they latched onto a valid email address and then you are sucked in even worse.

You cant totally avoid them. But there are a few things you can do to help allievite the problem.

(1) Use an email obfuscator on your website. These obfuscators take your email address and produce a javascript drop in HTML code replacement for your email address. When displayed, the people see the email address and can click on it like a link. When a robot views it, they only see garbage javascript and cannot find any email addresses.
(2) Create a new email address and start to use that. Give it out to trusted people. Let the old one keep gathering the garbage for now. When everyone that needs to know has the new address, delete the old one.
(3) Use Thunderbird as your email client. I has excellent SPAM and filter technology built into it. You can create a filter to look for certain key words in incoming email and drop the emails right into your junk mail folder.
(4) Use an inbetween spam filter - these come in 3 flavors. One that install on your email server. One as a stand-alone box that sits between your computer and your internet connection. One that installs on your computer that intercepts incoming emails - or calls out to your POP account automatically and cleans out the SPAM before it even gets into your email program.

Hope this all helps!

Answer 2

Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.

However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam.

1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address!

2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with [e-mail] and continue down to [e-mail]. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.

3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.
You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.

4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscrupulous websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.

5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!

Answer 3

YOU cannot stop spam. You can use tools to try and learn and/or capture and delete them for you. Tools like SpamBully can help reduce the amount of spam in your mailbox.

If you want a better solution, get a Gmail account. They have a very reliable spam filter.

Stopping spam starts at the ISP on the mail server side. Not the client side.

If you get spam, don't open it and most certainly do not click on any links contained within. When you do, you are using a link with specifically generated codes that the creator has stored on their server and you verify your address when you click. Verifying your address insures that you will get more spam from that company.

I wish you much luck.

Answer 4

Never click on the link to unsubscribe from spam...It makes the problem worse....Your best bet is to get some type of spam filter or use a email provider that marks spam and use a rule to delete it.

Answer 5

First thing - do NOT click on the "unsubscribe" link! It will only tell the spammer that your address is active, and he will sell your address to other spammers, which will of course increase the amount of spam you get, not decrease it. Last time I tried that I had to delete that address and get a new one.

Many websites will sell any contact information you give them, it's one of the ways they make money. Unscrupulous to be sure, but there ya go. If you're going to conduct any business on the net, set up an alternate address that is specifically for business. Make it easy to remember, if your address is (for example) [e-mail] then set up one that is [e-mail]. Keep your private address private and only use it for friends, family, groups, Yahoo Answers, etc.

Answer 6

Just don't click on Unsubscribe Link, By doing so you will confirm them that you have really active email address so don't click on Unsubscribe Link.

You can download some free spam blocker from the below link : -

http://www.earthlink.net/spamblocker/

or

http://www.dignitysoftware.com/index.html

Answer 7

Interacting with spam in any causes it to burst like a pimple and flood your system with more spam. Get a free virus eliminator, such as AVG or Spybot and get to work. You won't get rid of it any other way. Later on, get a good firewall and finish the job. B.

Answer 8

You didn't subscribe, your email address was sold to them.

Trying to unsubscribe doesn't usually make any difference, I used to get a lot of them on hotmail. So I stopped using hotmail and never give my email address out anymore.

I would think your best action is to change your email address.

Answer 9

You can't unsubscribe spam. Spam are useless and annyoying ads. If you have spam blocker on your e mail service. they are for the most part blocked effectively.

Answer 10

Change your security settings to disallow anything with sexual content:

Internet Explorer --
cl Tools
cl Internet Options
cl the Content tab
cl "enable"
Review, then set your options.

As others have advised, do not respond to these. It only serves to verify that they have hit a valid address.