That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam

Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam by ryoshu on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:38AM (#44282512)

Gmail has aliases that have a + in them, e.g. [email protected] -> [email protected]. I use them for subscriptions: [email protected], etc.

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Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam by Rygian on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:59AM (#44282636)

So if you provide [email protected], the spammers know that [email protected] is a legit address.

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Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam by danaris on Sunday June 15, 2025 @12:13PM (#44283070)

Yes, but only if they're bothering to do that level of checking.

I would guess that that's pretty rare, as not many people know about this trick.

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Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam by andrewinardeer on Sunday June 15, 2025 @02:56PM (#44284257)

I thought this was commonly known, particularly in the mass mailing marketing industry.

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Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam by bitmasher9 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:01AM (#44282646)

This type of pattern is very easy to scrub if you had a list of email addresses.

I have an anecdotal evidence inside my own inbox that this behavior is happening. You aren’t buying security from anything but the lazy and ignorant spammers.

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Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam by AznHisoka on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:33AM (#44282823)

Agreed. This tactic is so overused that spammers have caught on for quite awhile

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