The amount of spam I get is very annoying, as I am sure it is for everyone else in the world. It's getting to the point that the convenience of email is being undermined. Mostly I ignore it and delete, but occasionally it makes me really angry and I am tempted to shoot off a quick reply, usually of the "f*ck off and die a-hole" variety. Is there any reason why this would not be a good thing to do?
2006-10-24 03:58:06 · 13 answers · asked by jasondotcom2001 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It would show a lack of emotional control and be an admission that the bastards are getting to you.
2006-10-24 04:03:37 · answer #1 · answered by jackie j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's mass email and the mailing list could be all possible letter/number combinations for a signon and then @ .net or .com.
If you reply, they know they have a legitimate address and you get stuck on mailing lists that are sold from one place to another. Another thing is - don't "unsubscribe" to these emails either for the same reason. You end up getting tons of junk in your inbox.
The thing to do is not reply in the first place - especially to something that is asking for account and identity information. Once you do that, you could be headed for real some serious identity theft problems.
Another thing is never send your hard earned money anywhere per something in an email. These are con artists who will be running off with your money. You won't be able to identify them and you probably won't get your money back.
2006-10-24 11:25:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most e-mail providers (including Yahoo) you can put a filter that will catch most of your spam and send it to the 'round file' for you. I'm getting from 300 to 500 spams a day, and all but about 10 get sent to 'Coventry' for me without my ever seeing it.
Once you designate an E-mail ID as spam, anything that comes in under that name gets dumped for you.
2006-10-24 11:11:29 · answer #3 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why yes.. Usually spams are sent from fake adresses so there's no way to reply to them (unless you want to get the reply back to you :D with some more spams as bonus). Just keep ignoring them...
2006-10-24 11:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by agent-X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes do not reply at all because it verifies the email address as being "live". This just causes more spam.
2006-10-24 11:00:09 · answer #5 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're already on somebody's list. Once you respond to an email, click a link (anything but delete it), you're not only a confirmed valid email address - you're a confirmed spam email clicker, a customer, you're worth more, you'll get more spam.
There's also concerns about getting viruses.
2006-10-24 11:01:35 · answer #6 · answered by toks 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, don't reply, no human is ever going to read it, and I doubt a computer program will be upset that you told it to "f off and die". Just look on the bottom of the email for a "remove" link, and often, you can get yourself off of whatever godforsaken list you are on.
2006-10-24 11:07:11 · answer #7 · answered by nixie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you answer spam then they know they got a working email address and will spam just as more.
2006-10-24 10:59:55 · answer #8 · answered by jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did that... now i recieve spam mails more than ever before. the senders really don't care whether u are bothered or not. infact if u show ur anger, it pleases the spam senders. so that's the reason for not answering.
2006-10-24 11:02:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, there isn't. I tell you move down to the end of some of those items that are sent and considered spam, an unsubscribe, in that way, they won't send anymore to you.
2006-10-24 11:06:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋