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By the time I got close to the end of the article I was waiting for some kind of payoff where the spammer gets a bag of karma and we get to read some kind of am
by dangus 3y ago
By the time I got close to the end of the article I was waiting for some kind of payoff where the spammer gets a bag of karma and we get to read some kind of amusing email exchange.
It seems like the only thing that OP gets out of this is telling spammers that their email address is active. Now even though ChatGPT is the one replying, the human at the other end knows you’re a real person and that this is your real email.
Mark the email as spam and move on. Harassing poor people in third world countries working for spam companies isn’t going to help the situation for anyone including yourself.
- ElongatedMusket 3y agoThat's wrong. Every minute spent interacting with a fake lead is a minute lost with a real scam victim. The answer is to "reply" from a throwaway email account. That keeps your real email off active target lists. No spammer uses unique reply-to emails per recipient, so there's no trace back to your original email address. That requires brains for them to setup.
- dangus 3y agoI guess if you assume that I care about other scam victims and that I don’t value my time. I doubt the effectiveness of this theory anyway, it sounds like trying to stop street crime by buying up all the drugs.
- hiatus 3y agoIt's more akin to keeping a robocall on the line so they can't make another call.
- vincent-manis 3y agoYes, I do that with phone spam, at least the calls that aren't blocked. I always press the “speak with a human” key, and then keep talking to the person until they hang up on me (they always do). I'm retired, so my time doesn't cost anything, and doing this makes their day's work a little less productive. Seems like a good trade-off to me.