If you are receiving unwanted e-mails from no-prescription pharmacies, particularly from the same source again and again, you obviously want to stop those messages from appearing in your inbox.

So when the message you receive concludes with an offer to delete you from the mailing list, it’s tempting to click the “unsubscribe” link or reply to the e-mail with a “remove me” request, isn’t it?

Don’t do it!

Most pharmacy spammers send out well over a million spams every day to lists scraped and stolen from all over the Internet. These spammers have no idea which of the addresses on their lists are functional and currently in use, and which are not.

Until you click a link or send a reply, that is.

As Spamhaus explains:

By sending back a ‘remove me’ opt-out request you are confirming to the spammer that your address is live, you are confirming that your ISP doesn’t use spam filters, you are confirming that you actually open and read spams, and that you follow the spammer’s instructions such as “click this to be removed”. You are the perfect candidate for more spam.

A live address is a valuable address, spammers sell live addresses at a premium as “confirmed deliverable” addresses to yet more spammers. If you don’t want your address to end up on endless spammers’ lists, distributed on spam CDROMs to spammers worldwide, do not confirm to the spammer that your address is real and working.

Never Opt-out of lists you did not Opt-in to in the first place.

U.S. laws are strict against sending unsolicited bulk email. If someone is spamming you, chances are the perpetrator is based overseas and, in many cases, linked to criminal syndicates.

Believe us, you don’t want to deal with people like that — even in a seemingly innocuous e-mail reply.

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