Beware of Emails Asking You to "Confirm Your Unsubscribe" Request

guest · Aug 4, 2019

Beware of Emails Asking You to "Confirm Your Unsubscribe" Request
August 4, 2019
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...king-you-to-confirm-your-unsubscribe-request/

A long-running scam email campaign that pretends to be an unsubscribe confirmation request has seen an uptick recently. These emails should never be clicked on or responded to as they are designed to harvest working email addresses or to perform some other type of scam.

If you are looking for trouble and click on the unsubscribe button, it will compose a new message with the subject of "Unsubscribe", no message body, and will want to send the email to 15 to 20 email addresses. These email addresses are for domains hosted by noip.com's free dynamic DNS service.
It goes without saying that you should definitely not send any email to these spammers and should simply delete the email.
What happens if I unsubscribe?
By responding to the spammers, you tell the scammers that they have a "live one" and they add you to a list of active email accounts that can be used for other scams. These email lists can then be sold to other scammers or used for their own purposes.
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guest · Aug 4, 2019

come on , you get a email to confirm your "unsubscribe" out of the blue while you didn't do anything and you click on it? how dumb the masses could be...

Keatah · Aug 4, 2019

Pretty damned dumb. Don't underestimate stupidity now that everyone has internet access.

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