The obvious became evident to me …
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Last week, we whined about nuisance phone calls and recommended that everybody let all unidentified calls go unanswered … with an opportunity to go to voicemail, of course.
No voicemail … not important or urgent … and probably a robot.
I forgot to mention that there’s an internet variant of the pesky robocalls….
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Everybody gets more email solicitations than they want, right?
So, how to stop them?
Easy answer: click the Federally required “unsubscribe” link.
Err, not so fast … might cause a problem bigger than an overflowing email box …
How so?
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First, clicking “unsubscribe” is akin to clicking an “I’m a live person with an authentic email address”.
Such a designation makes you prime meat for email solicitors.
A shady operator might sell your “verified” name and email address to other solicitors.
You may stop one emailer, but open the dam to others.
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Worst case … the link could be a hot button for a malware download.
That’s a lot worse than a flood of email.
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Even if the odds of a click-through problem are low, they’re statistically greater than zero … which means someday it’s bound to happen.
So, what to do?
Safest bet is to set up a filter to divert emails from the undesired sender to a spam folder.
You won’t be see the email (unless you want to), storage is cheap, and you can always do a bulk delete to empty the spam folder.
Better safe than sorry, right?
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