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How to Stop Email Spam When Unsubscribe Does Not Work
You don’t have to shoot the culprit to stop email spam.
Do you want to stop email spam? If you are tired of receiving repeat email spam and have unsubscribed from that email spammer but the unwanted email continues, there is a solution. You do not have to be a slave to your email system just because some moron continues to spam you over and over. I realize Sacramento Realtors are cautious to block any email for fear they could unintentionally block a legitimate business communication attempt, but there are safe ways to do it, and definitely a way to make sure no spam will ever reach your email again. You can stop email spam.
A few months ago I wrote about how to reduce spam. But today, I want to tell you how to stop email spam all together. You know how it goes, especially if you are a Sacramento Realtor. Let’s take a Sacramento home inspector like Brian G, for example. I’m not gonna tell you his last name because there is no reason to try to ruin the reputation of a dingbat home inspector who does not entiende email spam laws; some ignorant idiot. I’m confident some of my readers recognize the problem with this guy or perhaps you are one of the victims who have already filed a complaint against him on YELP?
This turkey has emailed me over and over. I have unsubscribed. I have written to him and even personally called to plead with him to please, please, stop emailing me. This has been happening for years with him. I don’t and won’t use his services; he is a commercial solicitor and I have no reason to ever contact him. Yet, he won’t stop. He claims his mailhouse is the culprit. That is not a defense.
Federal law says he is a violator. It says he and and his mailhouse are both responsible for violating the Can-Spam law.
Penalties can be as high as $16,000 per offense. Item 7 of Can-Spam specifically warns spammers:
- Monitor what others are doing on your behalf. The law makes clear that even if you hire another company to handle your email marketing, you can’t contract away your legal responsibility to comply with the law. Both the company whose product is promoted in the message and the company that actually sends the message may be held legally responsible.
Stop Email Spam by Reporting the Offender to the Government
If you are receiving email spam from a commercial vendor with whom you have no pre-existing relationship, and you have asked this spammer to stop, perhaps unsubscribed, and yet that spammer disregards your objection and continues to email you, you don’t have to put up with that nasty behavior. You can report that spammer to the Federal Trade Commission. It’s easy. Just forward the spam email to spam@uce.gov.
How to Get Rid of Email Spam
This morning I received a very odd piece of email. It would appear that a couple of years ago, a person signed up to receive emails from me for home listings in the outskirts of Sacramento metro. He did it through my company website, which is not my professional business website. You are at my professional business website for Elizabeth Weintraub if you are at elizabethweintraub.com. Apparently, this person grew tired of receiving emails or maybe decided not to buy a home, I have no idea, but whatever the deal, he complained to his internet service provider that he was receiving spam.
Spam that he signed up for and asked to get. That’s the part that blows me away. Not only that, but like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, he has always had the ability to unsubscribe by clicking his heels together and tapping the mouse on the unsubscribe link. Automatic unsubscribe. That’s all there is to it.
Major corporations do not entrap people or send them to virus-ridden websites or use the unsubscribe link to send out more spam, because there are laws against it. Reputable companies unsubscribe you, that’s why they send you the link. Because they are required to give you the ability to opt yourself out.
It’s bad enough if you’re the person who asked for the information and then you refuse to unsubscribe your own dumb self, but what if you never specifically asked for any information? Here’s how that happens. I should point out that when you buy things online, be very careful about giving out your email address as you’re not always required to provide it. Moreover, companies often design order forms that automatically check boxes to send you newsletters and more information (i.e. spam), and if you don’t uncheck those boxes, you will get crap from the company whether or not you think you asked for it.
But those companies can also send you unwanted emails even if you didn’t ask for anything because they will say they had a pre-existing relationship with you. Because you ordered something from them. So, if you give them your email address and, after you receive the product you ordered, emails are still arriving, then click the unsubscribe button.
Better yet, consider using a throwaway email such as yahoo or gmail for your online purchases.
