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by apercu 614 days ago
What's especially awesome is how many unsolicited emails don't have unsubscribe links in them.
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If an email is truly unsolicited (didn't come from an entity you didn't give your address to), it's not wise to click on an unsubscribe link anyway, as it sends a strong signal to the spammers that not only was the email delivered to a real person, but they also read it. In their eyes, you just went from a random string of letters to a hot sales lead.
Also nuts is when they couple them to phony real world locations like "123 Main St., Mytown MA"