The question is to Unsubscribe or Not from spam emails. Here is the learning curve on what happens when you do decide to Unsubscribe.
When you get an email let’s say from a car warranty provider or an insurance company or a Medicare company and it doesn’t look legit, well, that’s because it isn’t. It a spammer who has created an email to look like it is from the official company but it is really not.
If you dive a little deeper into that emails headers you will see the email address is nothing like the official sites email. You might see something like jgwogbenmaaA@car_warranty_company.kfgyuedlobve.xyz. But the sent from name is the Car Warranty Company.
This is done so they can embed an affiliate link to get a referral fee off sending you there and you buy something or they are actually not even sending you to the right site which is even more dangerous then just spamming affiliate links. Let me tell you why…
If they are sending you to a fake website that looks JUST like the real one but the address in your address bar above says something like this: http://warranty_company.lkhegabvytr.xyz then you are being scammed, phished, stole from!!!
This is your average Phishing Scam, and they don’t expect to catch any trout here, just your credit/debit card number so they can steal your funds. Please be more attenuative to the from address, the links in emails and what you are entering your card number into. I don’t need to tell you that for one the site should have https and not http to be secure.
Another issue is the fact that you get spammed and you want to click Report as Spam in your email client and it pops up asking you to report spam or to unsubscribe or visit the site to unsubscribe. Let’s lay this out for you what will happen with each.
When you hit unsubscribe or visit a site to unsubscribe in an email you are indeed unsubscribing BUT… You are also adding yourself to a list of valid emails for the user to resell as validated and working emails. It’s like walking into a diner or truck stop and there is a box sitting there that says enter to win a free tv, so you fill out the entry form, tear it off, fold it over and slip it into the box not knowing that you just added yourself to a leads list that will be sold over and over 100 times and you will get emails, phone calls, mail spam for the next year that will drive you mad.
So, be wise when you unsubscribe the next time, I personally skip the unsubscribe and just hit the report spam.
