• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    2 days ago

    I get that feeling when I press “report spam” and gmail suggest I “unsubscribe from them”, that that’s exactly what the spammer want, a ping back so they know I’m susceptible, that I’m an engaging fool, and get put on all the lists.

    • Dainis@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Not sure if emails work the same way, but this is how phone scammers work

      If you interact with a phone scammer, send them to hell or do anything at all with them, you just get added to a big lost of people that respond to scam calls and so you get more calls

        • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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          That’s what I figured too. Make sure to be the biggest pain for them. Seems dumb to put someone that is savvy and not a rube on a list to be called more. I would think the not answering scam calls would get you more calls because they are unsure of you.

          • I defiantly got onto the call more list at one point but I kept being the biggest pain in the ass and one day they just stopped completely. I once had these one people on the phone for 6hours straight and went through about 4 transfers in the process. They connected with my VM at one point where I was live developing a fake bank website I had passed through from my host. Did u know u can embed the password game into a website extremely easily and conveniently I needed a password reset and needed help. Yes I stole the idea from kitboga.

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      It drives me nuts that I can’t turn off the unsubscribe feature entirely. I’ll use their unsubscribe button once, and if it doesn’t work, then all future emails are getting forwarded back to whoever I gave the email address.