[J1ceasar]

Thank you for the reminder for everyone that simply clicks.. has someone else suggested below if you hover over the email address in the send position it will tell you usually who sent it. If it's from a legitimate company their name will be in it directly as you normally get from them. But I was still would never click.. the best way is to mark it as spam from your email provider. Well some companies do change emails on a regular basis many do not cuz they can't simply afford to do that as they are too small. I have found that many email concerns can be satisfied by changing your own email software program from the Microsoft provided email to Google called Gmail. It has a much better spam filter in either AOL, Yahoo or MS. Good luck.

[Girlcopper]

Originally Posted by thevillager1988

I have been diligently trying to keep my emails clear of clutter by unsubscribing to the many many advertisements that find their way into my inbox. Only recently did I notice many of the advertisements are coming from suspicious links. Ug. And now I have learned that there is a scam strategy that is precisely designed to get us to click the unsubscribe. Having done a little digging, I learned it is never a good idea to click the unsubscribe - and it’s likely to be a link that attaches a virus or malware to your computer.

This clip from an internet post explains it better than I can.

Attachment 89988

I am now using care when clearing all the trash from my email. And because of my naivete on the subject, I have a lot of trash.

My intention in this post is to help others. If it's not helpful, I will be able to tell by the responses and will take it down.

If anyone finds it helpful, or has other advice, I am grateful.

Clicking the unsubscribe just verifys for the scammers that its a valid active email. Yes, it has been a known fact for a long time but some dont know. You just block the address. Not unsubscribe

[scottiesrgreat@gmail.com]

Thank you for the reminder!!!! Great advice!

[Wonderfulwendy1]

Originally Posted by thevillager1988

I have been diligently trying to keep my emails clear of clutter by unsubscribing to the many many advertisements that find their way into my inbox. Only recently did I notice many of the advertisements are coming from suspicious links. Ug. And now I have learned that there is a scam strategy that is precisely designed to get us to click the unsubscribe. Having done a little digging, I learned it is never a good idea to click the unsubscribe - and it’s likely to be a link that attaches a virus or malware to your computer.

This clip from an internet post explains it better than I can.

Attachment 89988

I am now using care when clearing all the trash from my email. And because of my naivete on the subject, I have a lot of trash.

My intention in this post is to help others. If it's not helpful, I will be able to tell by the responses and will take it down.

If anyone finds it helpful, or has other advice, I am grateful.

Get Gmail and the majority of spam/promotions will go automatically into a separate file, you don't even have to see.

[Bridget Staunton]

Wonderful post from all, thank you for the advice

[Marine1974]

Thanks for Sharing.

[sallyg]

Thanks! Good advice.

[Jewelz]

Thanks for the heads up.....I was doing this every once in a while and won't anymore!!!!

[Brondrisek]

Thanks

[M2inOR]

All good suggestions.

My wife's email address is being used to register to thousands of sites around the world since one event last weekend.

I've been helping her sort things out and using Gmail's SPAM tools to sort things out.

We we on the golf course Sunday afternoon when her phone and watch started singing with me message alerts.

Even worse was an online order confirmation from Lowe's amid those emails for a product we did not order. Monday afternoon was the first time I learned about the order as my CC alert indicated that a $1175 order was authorized.

I immediately called Chase to report the false charge, and then looked in both my and wife's email to see if there was anything from Lowe's. There was, to my wife's email, and I knew that was it as she always has me order stuff for her.

Talked to Lowe's and Chase to file reports.

Even though report was made, Lowe's had already started the shipping process via FedEx. I logged into my FedEx acct for alerts, mostly to make sure no delivery changes were attempted.

Yesterday, yes, the "ship to" address was changed. Fortunately, it was Lowecs who made the change to have FedEx return the product to its warehouse.

So, within those 5,000 emails she had received were the order confirmation and shipping info. Had I not intervened, we would never have even known. Also very helpful were the Chase CC text alerts to my phone.

Card was canceled and replaced by Tuesday.

Be care out there!

PS the emails to my spouse's inbox have slowed, as has the automatic SPAM filtering, but we remain vigilant!

[brick010207]

Originally Posted by thevillager1988

I have been diligently trying to keep my emails clear of clutter by unsubscribing to the many many advertisements that find their way into my inbox. Only recently did I notice many of the advertisements are coming from suspicious links. Ug. And now I have learned that there is a scam strategy that is precisely designed to get us to click the unsubscribe. Having done a little digging, I learned it is never a good idea to click the unsubscribe - and it’s likely to be a link that attaches a virus or malware to your computer.

This clip from an internet post explains it better than I can.

Attachment 89988

I am now using care when clearing all the trash from my email. And because of my naivete on the subject, I have a lot of trash.

My intention in this post is to help others. If it's not helpful, I will be able to tell by the responses and will take it down.

If anyone finds it helpful, or has other advice, I am grateful.

Helpful

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by thevillager1988

I have been diligently trying to keep my emails clear of clutter by unsubscribing to the many many advertisements that find their way into my inbox. Only recently did I notice many of the advertisements are coming from suspicious links. Ug. And now I have learned that there is a scam strategy that is precisely designed to get us to click the unsubscribe. Having done a little digging, I learned it is never a good idea to click the unsubscribe - and it’s likely to be a link that attaches a virus or malware to your computer.

This clip from an internet post explains it better than I can.

Attachment 89988

I am now using care when clearing all the trash from my email. And because of my naivete on the subject, I have a lot of trash.

My intention in this post is to help others. If it's not helpful, I will be able to tell by the responses and will take it down.

If anyone finds it helpful, or has other advice, I am grateful.

Thanks for this info, I didn’t know this! I wondered why all of a sudden I’m getting more stuff (spam) & I never asked for it or inquired about it. So how do I get rid of this junk that I’m getting all the time?

[keepsake]

Another peeve I have on email crap ...

I still use a browser that won't allow script websites to run without my authorization. Many of these so called REMOVE options expect my machine to RUN their suspicious script code to perform the remove. NADA. I don't trust script and THE LAW should require all REMOVE SCRIPTS to be standard HTML and not suspicious javascript code.

[noslices1]

Originally Posted by thevillager1988

I have been diligently trying to keep my emails clear of clutter by unsubscribing to the many many advertisements that find their way into my inbox. Only recently did I notice many of the advertisements are coming from suspicious links. Ug. And now I have learned that there is a scam strategy that is precisely designed to get us to click the unsubscribe. Having done a little digging, I learned it is never a good idea to click the unsubscribe - and it’s likely to be a link that attaches a virus or malware to your computer.

This clip from an internet post explains it better than I can.

Attachment 89988

I am now using care when clearing all the trash from my email. And because of my naivete on the subject, I have a lot of trash.

My intention in this post is to help others. If it's not helpful, I will be able to tell by the responses and will take it down.

If anyone finds it helpful, or has other advice, I am grateful.

I usually click the “unsubscribe” link, but sometimes my IPhone pops up a message that this is a possible dangerous link. In that case I just transfer to Junk and delete.

[Shoogley]

Block ……. Does not work either.
We should have a way of blaming the carrier or phone software company to correctly filter incoming Mail to contact list only and junk everything else.