Mods: I’m putting this here because I’m looking for advice from the masses. I don’t think there is a factual answer.
I’ve had a Yahoo! email account since 2003, and while I recently created a Gmail account that I am transitioning to I have too many friends who still use my old Yahoo! account so I am keeping it around for now.
My Gmail account gets almost no spam, however my Yahoo! account get’s quite a lot, 25-30 spam emails a day. Fortunately almost all of it ends up in my Spam folder and I just have to empty it every few days which isn’t a big deal, however much of it is the same spam from the same people every day… mostly people selling me drugs of one sort or another. I have NEVER purchased drugs online or from an email, and I never will.
I remember being told once not to open spam since that will signal the spammer that you are a real person and will encourage them to keep sending more or to sell your email address. I’ve also heard that unsubscribing sometimes works so you should try to unsubscribe in hopes of stopping at least some of it.
What say you? Just delete the spam without ever trying to unsubscribe, or try to unsubscribe at the risk of tipping off the spammers? In some cases I have been getting the same spam message for a few years now, every day of the week.
What’s the best strategy here?