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Some people will send their mass spam and phish anyway. No thanks.
by _nalply 2y ago
Some people will send their mass spam and phish anyway. No thanks.
- purple-leafy 2y agoSpam? Easy. Someone selling something? Spam! I might set up an automatic email responder that reads an emails contents, runs it through my own LLM, and if the email is trying to sell me something, auto reply with “fuck off!”
- Brajeshwar 2y agoI'd rather delete/block it than reply/react to it at all. If you react, they know you exist and you are a valid target to re-target repeatedly, resold to other marketers. Mark as SPAM or Block/Filter or Ignore.
- purple-leafy 2y agoOkay new plan, I’ll have another email that responds to the email and says “fuck off”, meanwhile my honeypot email will block and mark as spam
- Ekaros 2y agoSadly I think it is illegal to sing up these addresses to every service known to you... Otherwise it would be interesting SaaS opportunity. Automatically sing-up spammers to any number of newsletters or contact forms...
- purple-leafy 2y agoI think you just gave my life purpose. It will be my magnum opus. Actually that’s already been completed, and will be released to hackernews in the coming days
- _nalply 2y agoOften spammers and phishers misuse legitimate emails they hacked. Just ignore and move on.
- immibis 2y agoWhen they're paying real money to scam you, wasting their time isn't a terrible idea. Like keeping the Microsoft virus scammers on the phone for an hour while you set up a virtual machine for them to remote into.