"UNSUBSCRIBE" links

First of all: I have looked into the message coding of many of these scam emails and the "unsubscribe" link frequently takes you to the exact same URL as the scam link (or email) buried in the message content. This is proof that many of these messages have no intention of "unsubscribing" you at all, and it is merely another attempt to con you into replying to the message or visiting their site.

Secondly: Many of you have been good enough to post your experiences with attempting to "unsubscribe" from spam or scams, and report that the attacks increased afterwards. This is also a good reason not to "unsubscribe". The comments posted here suggested that the 'unsubscribe' button is being used to verify working email addresses for further spamming.

Thirdly: It is a lot more fun to report them to the FCC, FBI, or whatever makes you feel better, while posting their crap on a site like this, making fun of them, and leaving their sender information available for any old free-range hacker who gets bored and pulls the losers' information off sites like this for their shenanigans. I have had a couple anonymous comments suggest that to be the case, and I think that is a good use for that sender information.

But of course, it is up to you what you do. In my experience of having received all of this garbage to my inbox: never respond in any way, shape, or form to these emails. You don't want yourself on the radar of anyone associated with these entities. The 'unsubscribe' link can be just as much a scam as anything else in the message.

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  1. do not put me back on face book

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    1. AM SANDRA FROM CANADA, THANKS TO DR ONIHA WHO HELP ME BRING MY HUSBAND BACK, MY HUSBAND LEFT ME WITH THREE KIDS, FOR ANOTHER YOUNG GIRL, FOR OVER TWO YEARS, I TRIED ALL I COULD TO SETTLED OUR DIFFRENCES, BUT IT YIELDED NO RESULT, I WAS THE ONE TAKING CARE OF THE CHILDREN ALONE, UNTIL ONE DAY, I CAME IN CONTACT WITH SOME ARTICLES ONLINE, CONTAINING HOW DR ONIHA HAS HELP SO MANY LOVERS AND FAMILY REUNION AND REUNIT AGAIN, AND I DECIDED TO CONTACT HIM, AND HE CAST HIS SPELL ON MY HUSBAND, WITHIN FIVE DAYS, MY HUSBAND RAN BACK HOME, AND WAS BEGGING ME AND THE KIDS FOR FORGIVENESS, IN CASE YOU ARE PASSING THROUGH SIMILAR PROBLEMS, AND YOU WANTS TO CONTACT DR ONIHA, YOU CAN REACH HIM VIA HIS CONTACT NUMBER, ON CALL OR WHATSAP +2347089275769 OR EMAIL DRONIHASPELL@YAHOO.COM

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  2. Do you ever receive any posing as if they are just replying to your email?
    With what looks to be "Original Message" ------ down below?

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  3. The email from the Pedophiles Found in Your Area Notification was sent to me from me. Does this sound like I've been hacked? Hackers, scammers, spammers, etc., deem to be on the rise:(

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  4. My name is Ruth Moore from uk. I never believed in love spells or magic until i met this spell caster once when i went to Africa in February this year on a business summit. I meant a man who’s name is DR.OYINBO he is really powerful and could help cast spells to bring back one’s gone, lost, misbehaving lover and magic money spell or spell for a good job or luck spell .I’m now happy & a living testimony cos the man i had wanted to marry left me 3 weeks before our wedding and my life was upside down cos our relationship has been on for 3years. I really loved him, but his mother was against us and he had no good paying job. So when i met this spell caster, i told him what happened and explained the situation of things to him. At first i was undecided, skeptical and doubtful, but i just gave it a try. And in 7 days when i returned to Canada, my boyfriend (now husband) called me by himself and came to me apologizing that everything had been settled with his mom and family and he got a new job interview so we should get married. I didn’t believe it cos the spell caster only asked for my name and my boyfriends name and all i wanted him to do. Well we are happily married now and we are expecting our little kid, and my husband also got the new job and our lives became much better. His email is prophetoyinbojesus@yahoo.com

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  5. Thanks for the information about the unsubscribe links! I have run into quite a few that give you the option but once you try to submit it shows as unsuccessful. So the link & effort is worthless.
    It took me a little while to figure out that many of these spammer use multiple servers that you have to unsubscribe from individually & often takes weeks to accomplish. I need a delete all for my inbox like the junk & trash boxes have!

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  6. HOW I GOT MY EX HUSBAND BACK WITH THE HELP OF REAL AND EFFECTIVE SPELL FROM DR Aluya My name is jessica, I never thought I will smile again, My husband left me with two kids for one year, All effort to bring him back failed I thought I'm not going to see him again not until I met a lady called Jesse who told me about a spell caster called Dr Aluya , She gave me his email address and mobile number and I contacted him and he assured me that within 48hours my husband will come back to me, In less than 48hours my husband came back started begging for forgiveness saying it is the devils work, so I'm still surprise till now about this miracle,i couldn't conceive but as soon as the spell was cast,i became pregnant and gave birth to my third child,if you need any assistance from him you can contact him via:email:{aluya.48hoursspelltemple@gmail.com} you can also call him or WhatsApp contact:: +2348055431163

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  7. my name is Jessica Funk and I want to thank Dr Sam a very powerful spell caster who help me to bring my husband back to me, few month ago i have a serious problem with my husband, to the extend that he left the house, and he started dating another woman and he stayed with the woman, i tried all i can to bring him back, but all my effort was useless until till the day my friend came to my house and i told her every thing that had happened between me and my husband, then she told me of a powerful spell caster who help her when she was in the same problem I then contact Dr Sam and told him every think and he told me not to worry my self again that my husband will come back to me after he has cast a spell on him,i thought it was a joke, after he had finish casting the spell, he told me that he had just finish casting the spell, to my greatest surprise within that 3 days, my husband really came back begging me to forgive him, if you need his help you can contact him with his email address[okokakspellhome@gmail.com or okokakspellhome@yahool.com] or add him up on his whatsapp +2349060421250 he is willing to help any body that need his help.

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  8. my name is Jessica Funk and I want to thank Dr Sam a very powerful spell caster who help me to bring my husband back to me, few month ago i have a serious problem with my husband, to the extend that he left the house, and he started dating another woman and he stayed with the woman, i tried all i can to bring him back, but all my effort was useless until till the day my friend came to my house and i told her every thing that had happened between me and my husband, then she told me of a powerful spell caster who help her when she was in the same problem I then contact Dr Sam and told him every think and he told me not to worry my self again that my husband will come back to me after he has cast a spell on him,i thought it was a joke, after he had finish casting the spell, he told me that he had just finish casting the spell, to my greatest surprise within that 3 days, my husband really came back begging me to forgive him, if you need his help you can contact him with his email address[okokakspellhome@gmail.com or okokakspellhome@yahool.com] or add him up on his whatsapp +2349060421250 he is willing to help any body that need his help.

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  9. My question is how do you stop from getting this shit. I have tied blocking report them unsubscribe them nothing works. I would be greatful to know how to do this thanks

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