How to get off a spam list
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Brain Bench was sending me email offers every day like clock work. I was being asked off and on to take the tests before an interview was granted so I bought a subscription. Now I never hear from them. No more email, offers, newsletters or anything. When the subscription is a few months away from termination I bet I get non stop emails saying how great it has been.
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Brain Bench was sending me email offers every day like clock work. I was being asked off and on to take the tests before an interview was granted so I bought a subscription. Now I never hear from them. No more email, offers, newsletters or anything. When the subscription is a few months away from termination I bet I get non stop emails saying how great it has been.
Do you want to help stopping spam? Don't buy anything from companies that spam. It's that simple. Nada. Nothing. Even things that they don't advertise with spam. There's this huge brazilian health insurance company, that allows their sales reps to spam me daily with health insurance offers. Whatever they do, I won't buy from them. Brainbench is one of the companies that it's in my "black list" for a long time for the very same reason. Meanwhile, collect all spam you receive for a few days on a separate Outlook folder and then use SpamBayes to protect yourself from spam. Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Brain Bench was sending me email offers every day like clock work. I was being asked off and on to take the tests before an interview was granted so I bought a subscription. Now I never hear from them. No more email, offers, newsletters or anything. When the subscription is a few months away from termination I bet I get non stop emails saying how great it has been.
It is all but impossible to get off spam lists again. Never ever reply to spam, is the best start. If answering such e-mails the spammer will know that there is "activity" on the other end, and you are likely to recive even more. Also make sure you never open a spam e-mail - even the preview window in Outlook/Outlook express counts as opening. Many spam mails contain imagelinks or other code that contacts a website and this way the spammers can also see that the e-mail adress is active. Keep your e-mail confidential, and only distribute it amongst trusted people/ressources. If you need a public e-mail or an e-mail that you need to type into an untrusted ressource, create one for the purpose. Hotmail and similar is usefull for this. I have some e-mail adress I don't use much for private communication anymore, so these can be used when I for instance needs to type something when downloading freeware/shareware/trial-ware from some companies. Get a spam-filter. I run a freeware spamfilter I'm quite happy with - I'm sure there are others that are better on the market, but this one seems to be about 99.8% accurate based on the statistics shown. I have a public e-mail adress on the web, because I'm moderating a games forum, and I recive about 200-300 spam e-mails a day on that account, so an e-mail filter is very nice. My private e-mail - I only recive about 5 spam mails aday - and that is because I was stupid enough to use it at an untrusted site. There are also programs out there that bounce e-mails with a "user dosen't exsist" message, so it looks like your e-mail adress dosen't exist, however I've not looked much into it. I hate spam, and spammers, but luckily - with a little set up and consideration, one can avoid much that floats around. With regards, Alsvha. --------------------------- 127.0.0.1 - Sweet 127.0.0.1
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It is all but impossible to get off spam lists again. Never ever reply to spam, is the best start. If answering such e-mails the spammer will know that there is "activity" on the other end, and you are likely to recive even more. Also make sure you never open a spam e-mail - even the preview window in Outlook/Outlook express counts as opening. Many spam mails contain imagelinks or other code that contacts a website and this way the spammers can also see that the e-mail adress is active. Keep your e-mail confidential, and only distribute it amongst trusted people/ressources. If you need a public e-mail or an e-mail that you need to type into an untrusted ressource, create one for the purpose. Hotmail and similar is usefull for this. I have some e-mail adress I don't use much for private communication anymore, so these can be used when I for instance needs to type something when downloading freeware/shareware/trial-ware from some companies. Get a spam-filter. I run a freeware spamfilter I'm quite happy with - I'm sure there are others that are better on the market, but this one seems to be about 99.8% accurate based on the statistics shown. I have a public e-mail adress on the web, because I'm moderating a games forum, and I recive about 200-300 spam e-mails a day on that account, so an e-mail filter is very nice. My private e-mail - I only recive about 5 spam mails aday - and that is because I was stupid enough to use it at an untrusted site. There are also programs out there that bounce e-mails with a "user dosen't exsist" message, so it looks like your e-mail adress dosen't exist, however I've not looked much into it. I hate spam, and spammers, but luckily - with a little set up and consideration, one can avoid much that floats around. With regards, Alsvha. --------------------------- 127.0.0.1 - Sweet 127.0.0.1
Alsvha wrote: There are also programs out there that bounce e-mails with a "user dosen't exsist" message, so it looks like your e-mail adress dosen't exist, however I've not looked much into it. don't try this. Unless you have your computer auto-bouncing 24hrs a day, they have learned to check the time for message to replies and if it isn't constant then it is not a server-bounce message it is a reply faked by a anti-spam tool, which they put into the "active bin" to sell to other people as active email messages. It's just a way to automatically tell them they reached an active email address. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)