Best to not hit their unsubscribe button, If in Gmail theirs will popup and you can use that.
Clicking “Unsubscribe” in a fraudulent email will not result in your email address being removed from the scammer’s email list. What it WILL do is one, or both of the following:
1 – Verify for the scammer that your email address is in fact a valid and active address (which will have the unwanted side effect of making your email address even more valuable to the scammer in the future).
2 – Take you to a malicious website that will download malware onto your computer and/or trick you into falling for a scam offer of some sort.
The best way to handle SPAM and other forms of unwanted email is to simply mark them as “SPAM” or “Junk” (depending on which word your email provider uses) and then delete them without even opening them.
Of course there will be times when you open one of these emails by accident, regardless of how careful you are to avoid them. When that happens, simply mark the message as SPAM or Junk and then delete it.
Whatever you do, DO NOT click on the “Unsubscribe” link (or ANY link in the email for that matter).
Best to not hit their unsubscribe button, If in Gmail theirs will popup and you can use that.
Clicking “Unsubscribe” in a fraudulent email will not result in your email address being removed from the scammer’s email list. What it WILL do is one, or both of the following:
1 – Verify for the scammer that your email address is in fact a valid and active address (which will have the unwanted side effect of making your email address even more valuable to the scammer in the future).
2 – Take you to a malicious website that will download malware onto your computer and/or trick you into falling for a scam offer of some sort.
The best way to handle SPAM and other forms of unwanted email is to simply mark them as “SPAM” or “Junk” (depending on which word your email provider uses) and then delete them without even opening them.
Of course there will be times when you open one of these emails by accident, regardless of how careful you are to avoid them. When that happens, simply mark the message as SPAM or Junk and then delete it.
Whatever you do, DO NOT click on the “Unsubscribe” link (or ANY link in the email for that matter).