I have a solution for spams in my email
By raydene
@raydene (9871)
United States
June 17, 2007 5:16pm CST
I have come up with a great way to deal with spams emails.When I get a spam email I hit reply and whatever it says in the subject I leave but I remove the 'Fwd:' and delete everything from the message part and insert one of my referral links.I doubt if I'll get any referrals this way but I will be sending a spam back at them...lol
What do you think?
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13 responses
@liana_pescarus (1168)
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17 Jun 07
i knew that spams are sent by robots... so i think it's a lot of work with no results. :(
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
17 Jun 07
I think you have something there. Although I think our emails are traceable. Might not work and they might have something that will up the numbers. Let me know if it seems to work for you. I already have them sent to a bulk folder where they are deleted after a time. I don't have a problem with them in my inbox. Good luck with this and let me know how it works for you.
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@bobbyjoe143 (1287)
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17 Jun 07
lol, what a fantastic idea, i may well try this myself. i hate getting spam and i have never really considered spamming them back before!
you're a genius!!
@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Jun 07
I don't think spammers check mail coming in to the various addresses they set up just for spamming purposes. But it's a thought, I'll give you that.
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@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
17 Jun 07
If you get multiple E-mails from the same spammer then I would reply multiple times to that spammer. Tell your friends about it and see if you can clog up their inbox. Even if yo send a message of "Hi" to them.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
3 Jul 07
It is funny that you woud mention that I have done that a few times myself. I don't think that I got any referals either.
@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
18 Jun 07
I would be really careful about your tactic treat spam emails. First of all, as far as I know the moemnt you send a reply email to these automatic emails, your email address is enetered into other spam email databases, which means you would possibly get even more of them in the future.
Rather just delete or block them, i.e. ignore the content at all!
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
18 Jun 07
That sounds like a very good idea. I try that except I dont use any referral links. Maybe I should try it with the myLot link?
@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
19 Jun 07
Ahhh, those spams never failed to mess my emails every single day. I kept wondering where they come from. I hope I have enough time to do what little mischief you did. As it is, my online time is limited. I might try it if I have some spare time left.
@sjohnson628 (3197)
• United States
18 Jun 07
LOL that's a good idea raydene. I think I will do the same! I hope it helps to stop spammers because I even when I mark some emails as spam they seem to keep coming back with ill effects. LOL1
