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Spam is indistinguishable from malicious content. You did not sign up for the "newsletter". Your email address was harvested and given to malicious actors hell
by inetknght 3y ago
Spam is indistinguishable from malicious content.
You did not sign up for the "newsletter". Your email address was harvested and given to malicious actors hell-bent on screwing you. Clicking on anything will take you to a website where your best interest is not at all what the company is going to do with your information. At best you might just remove one source of junk in your inbox. At worst, you end up clicking on something that turns out to install malware on your machine.
So what should you do?
1. Don't click on unsubscribe links.
2. Click the spam report button
3. Stop using big email services that ignore spam reports. Gmail panders to other big businesses by letting them spam you without giving you the option to blacklist the entire domain yourself. Malicious content will continue to enter your inbox until you move to an email provider that takes your privacy and security seriously.
- DeanGadberry 3y agoFair assessment. Which email service provider do you use?