Do NOT Click On the Unsubscribe Links

This kind of goes along with ignoring the spam emails. Often spammers will approach you in a way that that let’s you think that they are your friends. They will put certain things in your subject line like these:

• FROM: Paulina, SUBJECT: “remember me?”  
• SUBJECT: hi 
• SUBJECT: guess what? 
• SUBJECT: (none)

You get the picture from those. Many spammers will leave names and casual greetings so that you believe that you are getting a friendly email from a friend. Actually, that is a very useful method. I know plenty of people who have been caught by that one. Especially if the spammers use a name and that name is the same as a contact.

Of course, once you open these emails, you realize very quickly that they are not from your friends, but advertisements. It is natural for you to want to click on the link at the bottom of the email that promises that you can be taken off of their email list, but do not think for a second that this is what happens.

When you click on the “click here if you wish to stop receiving these emails” link, the spammers simply change the name that sends it to you. You will still receive the offensive material it will just be under a different name and subject text.

Hopefully you will now know that it is a waste of time for you to try to and get your address off their list. All you have proven is that you are indeed opening and reading them. So you have set yourself up as fair game