I need a list of websites to sign up spammers' emails with...

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I get way too many 'Is it for sale?' emails along with 'Job offer', 'work from home' etc... and they have subject of my items on sale.
I stopped replying them but rather than just deleting them, may be I can use those emails to sign up on marketing websites' email list so they get inundated with emails every day.
Go or no go?
Or, should I just ignore. :scratch2:
 
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If I forward email, they'll get my actual email address instead of CL's anonymous. :no:
 
1: Open an email account for just that sort of stuff, mailing lists, contests, etc.
2: Delete you CL ad as soon as it serves no purpose, and let them use CL email instead of a real email.
 
There's nobody on the other end of those emails, so all you're going to do is punish the one person you wrongly identify as a spammer, and the mail servers.
 
drknstrmyknight said:
1: Open an email account for just that sort of stuff, mailing lists, contests, etc.
2: Delete you CL ad as soon as it serves no purpose, and let them use CL email instead of a real email.
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This is what I do. I have several "webmail" accounts from yahoo.com. There are two that I never check and that I give to those websites that want you to sign up in order to do anything or for craigslist. One that I check on occasion and then my actual email that I use daily.

I agree though with the original post, if there was a way to make a list somewhere of spammers that people everywhere could add to it would certainly be nice.
 
I sincerely doubt you will do what you anticipate doing.

It is not uncommon for the 'return address' for spam email to be invalid (it bounces if you send email to it) or a valid email address of an innocent stranger whose name was simply harvested the same way yours was.

I have gotten email 'replies' from people who apparently got spam that had one of my email addresses as the 'reply to' email. They had some choice words for me, although I did not send them any emails.

Many people do not understand how email works. You do not have to hijack or otherwise compromise someone's email account to 'spoof' or pretend to be them when you send out email. I could send you email with a return address of superprez@whitehouse.gov and it would appear real - but it isn't. I don't have to hijack a White House email server or hack any passwords to put a fake email return address in the header of a spam email.

So use some caution in your desire to 'get back' at someone. You might be wasting your time (at best) or harassing some poor schmuck who just got their email address harvested like you did (at worst).

Spam sucks. Move on.
 
Have to say I feel your pain. Two email accounts are all I use. One for business/money/personal....the other for everything else. Both are GMail...I've been pleased w/GMail for years now. The business account gets about 2 spams a week....the other, pffzh...about 200+ a week. GMail lets you clean house w/two mouse clicks. Simply Superb!!


Yahoo, on the other hand, developed a serious reputation for malware. Since their revamp, they're still at tracking, tracing, transferring all kinds of crap to the unaware.
You've been Warned-!
 
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What email service are you using, anyway? I only get maybe one spam/scam email per month in gmail nowadays. I don't know how Pandovski manages to get so many, if that was supposed to be a comma. I used to get maybe 5-6 per day years ago, but now I get none. Are you not using the SPAM button? It shouldn't really matter since it's presumably filtered on massive compiled data, but maybe if you never click it...
 
I'm not worried about spam emails that just come in any email accounts.
Most of them go to junk folder anyways.

My concern is with those emails that have my sale items in subject lines and I have to open them to see if it is from genuine buyers. :scratch2:
I have one specific hotmail account for CL listings.
 
why does it matter that you open the emails? you have to click on a link inside them to have any malware or whatnot downloaded to your computer...
 
audiobiker said:
why does it matter that you open the emails? you have to click on a link inside them to have any malware or whatnot downloaded to your computer...
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Once you open the email, the sender knows it is a valid email address and thus the quanitity of future spam goes up. There is code you can embed in the email to report whether or not the person viewed it.
 
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