Tarah WheelerHow to phish me:
Send me an email newsletter hyping your
innovative
AI-enabled
blockchain-powered
Web3 product
and include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom
That’ll do it.
erica 🦜@Tarah oh god hahaha i've never thought about that
Stone Bear 
@Tarah I treat such things as spam and throw them in the folder where my Bayesian filter can chew on them. Any link in such an animal is definitely sus. (Sign me, 35-year spamcop and professional paranoid)
Billy SmithI've always treated the links in spam as confirmation that the email address was active.
Eric Neustadter (e)
Karandeep Singh
Wendy Nather@Tarah UNSUBSCRIBE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE
Shiro@Tarah So true. Best way ever.
Lesley Carhart 
@Tarah I do love a good mail server block though… domain if possible….
Stephen Baker@hacks4pancakes @Tarah
I would love to block the major junk senders, Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc. But there are a few desirable senders that use each service, making it counterproductive to block the entire service. Such is the #enshittification of the #email system.
I would love to block the major junk senders, Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc. But there are a few desirable senders that use each service, making it counterproductive to block the entire service. Such is the #enshittification of the #email system.
Brian Hawthorne@Tarah I only use unsubscribe links from places that I know I subscribed to. Most spam and phishing I never see, and if I do it gets added to the spam filter.
Xavier Ashe 
@Tarah I loooove having control of the spam filters at my company.
Aleema@Tarah ahahahahahah
Matt Papakipos
CheriSwears@Tarah
Ugh, really?
Ugh, really?
tolortslubor@Tarah OMG. It never occurred to me that those might be hiding malicious links. I think I’ve gotten lucky, and will no longer be tempting fate
Gareth Husk@tolortslubor @Tarah at the very least you've proved the email is live and can be further targeted if you hit the unsubscribe.
The truly annoying is our ex-security guy who would take a call from anyone. His account still gets spam over 2 years later
Chris Gray@Tarah Dastardly. You have the mind of a first class bastard.
Nick Lupien@Tarah the ultimate clickbait.
DiffieHellmanStan (Tony)
Chris Tirpak@Tarah I’m glad I’m not the only one that sees this. I taught my 80+ year old parents to just delete - also installed pixel blockers.
@Tarah my other favorite that seems to be trending is the fake “I guess you didn’t see my last email …” with a fake prior email pasted below. Literally have a filter for that garbage now as well.
Miss Conduct@Tarah correct. But also, please don’t give them any ideas
Morbeyn@Tarah You don’t have a mail processing rule moving all email with “unsubscribe” in the body immediately to junk? In ~5 years I’ve missed half a dozen “important” emails (invoices) and in both instances the company chased with a phone call.
That “unsubscribe” link has been invaluable, just not in the way they expected.
Izzy@morbeyn @Tarah Well, if I'd get a bill with an unsubscribe link, I'd really be tempted to unsubscribe instead of paying. After all, that was the offer, right?
But yes, my SpamAssassin has a rule for that (+1.0 for "unsubscribe" phrases/links – that usually suffices to kick it over the limit, as Bayes and some other rules add up).
An | Anton Röhm@Tarah don't give them ideas
fanf42
Diabolic Preacher@Tarah it's not phishing if it's not "unsusbcribe" link
Michael Karbowiak@Tarah why would you give them ideas like this /o\
Samuel Hautamäki@Tarah What?? so you don't want to hear about an innovative 'deep learning, end to end encryption, AI-enabled, blockchain-powered, Web 3, decentralized, destabilized, dot com, SaaS' product?