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I have received several emails from a website called Zorpia, which I am not interested at all in.
According to the Wikipedia page, it is a social network which tries to recruit users with spamming, scamming and phishing methods. For instance, in my case, I have received an email on January 7, 19 and 23, and all emails were trying to trick me with the following message:
Hi WOK,
Kow has left you a private message for you. Click on the button below to view it.
View Private Message (in fact, a link to hack into my Gmail contacts and send them similar spam)
Regards,
The Zorpia Team
This message is sent on behalf of Kow.
Block future emails like this. Privacy policy
Is it relevant to hit the unsusbscribe button (Block future emails like this) in an email which looks like spam? Or am I doomed to receive these emails every week for the rest of the year?
I know we should not try to unsusbscribe from spam. But in this case, the link looks like this, which looks okay (no redirection, etc.) if the website is not a total spammer:
ZORPIA.com/email/optout/myemail@myprovider.com
I generally only use unsubscribe if I believe the company is legit--trustworthy enough, at least, to not link to a malicious false "unsubscribe" site. Failing that, the only option, really, is to log into your email server and block that sender. (Or, email clients like Thunderbird let you create auto-delete rules. You won't be bothered with the messages anymore, but they'll only get deleted after they've been downloaded to your computer, so that wastes bandwidth.) – Jon Coombs – 2016-03-14T17:05:22.993
There is no one real good answer for this. – EBGreen – 2013-01-23T20:54:07.583
First use the unsusbscribe method. If that doesn't work setup a filter to delete all emails from this provider. – Ramhound – 2013-01-23T21:07:35.263