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Originally Posted by tofu
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Originally Posted by Astronot
The fastest way to get of off the list to receive bulk spam from your acquaintances is to hit the reply all button and respond with factual information and links to credible sources that support your statements. Most of the time these messages contain multiple email addresses of many friends of the sender. The original sender will be embarrassed enough to make sure you never get another junk email again.
Only do this if you don’t mind never hearing from the person again.
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I do that, but I also go one step further. Usually, when someone forward an email they leave the addresses of all the previous people who have forwarded the email. So the message looks like this:
from: billybob
to: tofu
subject: fw: fw: fw: fw: OMFG WTF?
>from: jethro
>to: billybob
>subject: fw: fw: fw: OMFG WTF?
>>from: anniemay
>>to: jethro
>>subject: fw: fw: fw: OMFG WTF?
>>Teh Moon is as BIG as mars!!!111
When you think about it, this makes sense. A person who is too lazy to spend 30 seconds looking this up in google is also too lazy to clean up the email before forwarding it. Anyway, what I usually do is email jethro and anniemay from an anonymous account and I tell them that they are very foolish for believing this and very rude for forwarding it on.
I'm sorry, but this is the 21st century. In my opinion, if you are an adult you should be smart enough to learn basic netiquette, and that includes not propagating stupid hoaxes. Polite emails rarely work on these types of people, but a very rude email that berates them mercilessly might just be traumatic enough to make them think twice about doing it in the future. |
I got a couple of similiar emails forwarded from a friend; and did the 'reply to all' with a link or two debunking same. Months later, from the same friend, I got a virus alert with panic written all over it. The email said to do a search and delete what comes up on your computer stateing it was a deadly (for your data) virus hibernating. Being skeptical, I Googled the search term; the Norton site came up calling it a 'hoax' warning. If you deleted what it said to delete, one would ~have~ to re-install Windows for the pc to function correctly.
I forwarded the link to him immediately, along with thirty others on his forwarded email. This was within five minutes of receiving it from him. Told him to don't ever automatically send out anything like that again with at least checking it out. "Look at the damage you could have caused."
Jeez, the naivete.