- If you use a public email provider, mark the emails as spam.
- Set an email filter to delete all their emails. And if you’re mad, also add a forward to some of their addresses.
- Email every single email address you can find on their website that they should remove your email address from their system. I live in the EU so I always mention GDPR, which they are required to follow if they wish to do any business with people from the EU. There’s similar laws in other countries.
- If the senders email address is not a “noreply” email address, reply with “UNSUBSCRIBE”.
- If the website uses an email service such as mailchimp, mark them as “I never signed up for this”. If a lot of people do this they might get in trouble.
- www.spam.org/report
These are my default solutions for spam like this.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
It is an absolute PITA to keep an email server on the “nice” list so your company’s email traffic doesn’t get spam filtered by every service provider, and the major services (gmail, outlook, etc) are all federating their spam filter lists so many times if you get blocked on one you get blocked on all. There is so much spam to deal with that the filtering is highly automated and there’s little human oversight.
The point being, it could only take a handful of incidents reporting a company’s email as spam to ruin their reputation and result in email from their domain getting automatically filtered everywhere. So, you know, if they don’t support an easy way to unsubscribe then they are in fact behaving like spammers, so flag them and let them deal with having their domain blacklisted.