Why you should avoid clicking “Unsubscribe” in SPAM messages

kburra

kburra

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Why you should avoid clicking “Unsubscribe” in SPAM messages

Clicking “Unsubscribe” in a fraudulent email will not result in your email address being removed from the scammer’s email list. What it WILL do is one, or both of the following:

1 – Verify for the scammer that your email address is in fact a valid and active address (which will have the unwanted side effect of making your email address even more valuable to the scammer in the future).

2 – Take you to a malicious website that will download malware onto your computer and/or trick you into falling for a scam offer of some sort.
 

I never open up any emails that look like spam Kburra, luckily I get very few spam emails. I wondered though, sometimes I just hit delete and remove them unopened, but sometimes I check them and click on "spam", then they go into a spam folder. Does it do any good to click "spam", or does it just make more sense to delete?
 
I use Yahoo e-mail, and they have put in a new feature that allows a person to "Block" a spam e-mail. Since I started using that option, the amount of spam I get has been drastically reduced. I used to get 10 or 20 a day, and now the number is down to perhaps 3 or 4 a day. At any rate, I Never open any mail from a source I don't recognize...I move it to Spam, then block it. Yahoo got hacked a few months ago, and as soon as I heard about it, I changed my password, and shortly thereafter Yahoo provided the Block option.
 

Being a geek and needing drivers for various hardware I find in the dumpsters I am always looking online. Many sites ask for an email address before they allow it so I have a dead mail account on yahoo that I never open. Last time I looked there were 7690 msgs.
 
Google's gmail is very good at screening spam; can't recall seeing a spam email in my Inbox, or a legitimate email being accidentally diverted to the spam folder.
 
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