Do Not Ever Respond to Spam, Even to Unsubscribe

You might occasionally wonder why it's always you who receives spam emails, while people who don't even bother to unsubscribe from spam emails—seem to be able to live their lives free of spam headaches. The solution isn't that they are merely fortunate. Instead, you might be trying too hard to prevent it. Furthermore, you've fallen for the trap if you've ever sent a spam text message "STOP" or unsubscribed from a spam email. Besides, targeting particular individuals is not a common practice among scammers since it takes too much time. Instead, they use the good old throw-spaghetti-to-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks method as a more effective way to gather victims. Hence, responding to these messages makes you appear stuck to the wall and like a juicy, delicious target. Of course, unsubscribing from or texting "STOP" to legitimate sources will occasionally help you reduce the amount of clutter and notifications in your inbox. But, if the source is a scam, they are simply checking to see if your contact information is accurate. Moreover, scammers usually appear to be one step ahead of their victims and are aware that people are wary of potential fraud. Hence, they prey on that suspicion to trick you. So, they are using a new tactic that comes in the form of "This wasn’t you? Click here to unsubscribe" in the texts or emails. However, clicking the link only informs them that you are a hot noodle stuck to the wall and does not unsubscribe you.

Few tips on avoiding spam

One method is that you can flag the group to Twitter and exit when you receive an invitation to a group chat on Twitter with hundreds of other business owners strategizing how to buy the newest cryptocurrency before it soars to the moon. In addition, when you receive a text from PayPal congratulating you for joining up and providing a link that reads, "Not you? Click here," forward the number and text to 7726 to report it to your carrier and block it. Lastly, you can just tag emails about a prince in Nigeria as "spam" and delete them. Similarly, you apply the same logic when interacting with Instagram bots, responding to spammers, or taking calls from "troll" spammers and wasting their time (there is a whole subreddit devoted to this practice).