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How to stop marketing mail when the company ignore your unsubscribe request?

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  • unholyangel
    unholyangel Posts: 16,866 Forumite
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    Ahhh, thank you, I thought there may be some way of doing it :D

    Yeah incredimail is really easy to bounce back. Just right click. You can even block sender/bounce back in one go :rotfl:
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
  • CharlieBilly
    CharlieBilly Posts: 2,319 Forumite
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    edited 22 July 2010 at 3:05PM
    A program called mailwasher does this

    http://www.mailwasher.net/


    Bounce back unwanted e-mails so the sender gets a 'User does not exist' bounced email back, thus making it look as if your email address is not valid. Great for letting someone you don't like (eg. ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend/annoying newsletter senders) think your email address doesn't exist anymore and that you're no longer contactable.

    In mail on a Mac is a great setting where you can bounce mail back so it appears the address isn't working. I bounce all the crap now and its really cut it down.
    Not sure if you can do a similar thing on PC?
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    Yeah incredimail is really easy to bounce back. Just right click. You can even block sender/bounce back in one go :rotfl:

    Ive found the bounce thing very useful, as I said I've noticed a drop in spam since I started bouncing it back. When you click 'unsubscribe' companies know the address is active, but with bounce it appears it isnt.
  • CharlieBilly
    CharlieBilly Posts: 2,319 Forumite
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    I just add all unwanted mail to spam folder in gmail. gmail is very good at removing unwanted spam anyway those that get through can easily be added

    I often find subscribe option doesn't work or takes awhile for spam to stop sometimes spammers want you to reply so they know ist geuine addrss
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