Warning! Spammers' newest trick.

I experienced the immensity of the human inventiveness very often already. The peoples find out some new one, by way of which the world moves ahead, always. On the other hand not always into the good direction.

I'm saying this because I've been getting tremendous amount of emails recently with a content and format of something a marketer might write. I'm reading in these emails that I got this email because I'm on their list, which is nonsense, because I make a list about my subscriptions, so I know what the thruth is.

Naturally there is an unsubscribe link on the bottom line of every emails, but these emails arrived from private address and domain and not from GetResponse, Aweber, Trafficvawe or similar service.

I experienced this already approximately a month of it. And I have to admit, initially I clicked the unsubscribe button in cca. three or four cases. It was a new for me at that time.

What happened?

You bet it, all kinds of spam letters I receive, which I delete without a perusal, since then, but I don’t click to any unsubscribe link because I’m convinced they are spam.

A friend of mine enlightened me that I must not click on this kind of unsubscribe link because with the click I confirmed my address, in this manner I will be on their 'good' list, which might be sold on all over the world.

Side note: I can imagine already how they get such 'millions' mailing list. And I disapprove of this kind actions.

These emails come from some English speaking source, because they are well written, their grammar is also ok. May be spammers think that the addressee don't remember his sign up, so according to it he will click the unsubscribe link. And bingo... they harvest a new opt in.

What is the effect of this?

The action like this affects the honest marketers' judgement harmfully, who apply the double opt-in method. Beeing not a techie I don’t know what it would be possible to make against these, IMHO this will belongs to the business now.

According to this I use it often merely the delete button. But, probably the fewer addressee click to that unsubscribe link, the fewer spammer will apply this method. That was the reason I write about this.

Best weekend.

 

Sorry Sarah,

May be you are familiarized with this.

I faced with it recently and this was new for me. I'm not allknowing, and I thought that everybody likes to learn from mistakes of others. I learnt it to my cost. And I thought I must help others to avoid this trick. Did I some wrong?

 

To be honest I don't receive that much spam.
Even when I get some spam in my inbox I just delete them right away.
I would never click on any links in emails but obviously some people do it

 

Ah... I never know about this... Glad I don't view emails that I don't know the sender, I always just select them all then click delete...

Maybe this is not new to everybody, specially to those people who do this in terms of online marketing(yah, spamming emails) but this one is definitely new to me. And thanks to you SandorVerebi for this info.... Rep added...

 

hi,

thanks for the post will be aware.

 

dont make posts so long!! it really guarantees users wont read it..i tried my best to catch something since im replying but still..i think as long as u hav gmail u r gud..i get around 50spam mails per day and there's yet one mail to pass the gmail spam filter..thats all my advice on email spam is..

 

unsubcribe trick was old, not new. I just use the SPAM button in Yahoo Mail for any spam.

 

You do not even have to click on the unsubscribe link either at times depending on your email service settings. If you are setup to auto download images in your emails, then they have already harvested your email address as a working one that has read the email. They insert little 1x1 images with a tracking code unique to your email address, so when that image has been fired (displayed to you) it knows what tracking code it came from and auto updates in there system the email address is alive and someone at least read your message. Still not a new method, that has been around for years now as well as the infamous unsubscribe list selling.

 

good info thank you

 

Thanks I did not know this. I always delete any email from unknown senders without opening it.

 

just beware everyone thanks for remindin us

 

This whole spam issue is so "old" and so played-out. People, I dont like or dislike spam. We have all read it and admit it or not at some point found something interesting VIA spam.

I say spam me - My filters block it.

I sometimes sneak in to my junk email bin - just to see whats new in the spam world...

Just my quick thought on spam