[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Any good SPAM email reporting services?
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Ask HN: Any good SPAM email reporting services?
I often get spam at my work email - no floods (just a few a week)
because I've been very careful with my address, just the annoying,
persistent spammers that I never signed up for (either directly or
via related 'services'). I suspect most either just do dictionary
guesses of email addresses, or (more likely) simply try addresses
based on scraped LinkedIn data. Given how careful I've been with my
address, and that it's my work address, I kinda take these spams as
a personal invasion of my inbox (not to mention that it violates
local laws). I've used SpamCop[1] in the past, though I have my
doubts of it having any real benefit; and lately I've found that
some reports are being sent to a 'nulled' address that ends up
being used only for their internal statistics (so those reports go
effectively nowhere) Are there any other (good) alternative
services to SpamCop? Or how do you deal with repeat spammers? P.S.
Yes, I _could_ "unsubscribe" from their spam, but I have 2 issues
with that: 1. It confirms to them the email is real, which I don't
want to do, and... 2. I never subscribed to their spam in the
first place, so I don't see why I should now be bothered with
having to unsubscribe. Plus if they were able to add my address to
their spam list without me providing it, they should just as easily
be able to remove it without it being provided - hence me using
SpamCop instead. [1] https://www.spamcop.net
Author : sebastien_b
Score : 3 points
Date : 2022-01-27 22:42 UTC (20 minutes ago)
| gregjor wrote:
| Intractable problem, like houseflies. Not worth wasting time.
| Delete and get on with your day. Taking mass spam emails
| personally seems unhealthy.
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