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grr.

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Ok, so for the last couple months I have started getting this new spam.
I am getting 2-5 messages a day. And there is no way to unsubscribe.
They are all advertisements for business schools in India. It's a form, where you enter your name and email address and choose which campus (Mumbai, Bhopal, etc) and they send you more info.

I DO NOT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL IN INDIA.

it's really infuriating because I can't make it stop.

Most of my spam is a one time thing, and I just delete it. And the recurring stuff usually has an unsubscribe link.
But these don't, and it seems like they're multiplying.

Just today I got messages from "Entrepreneur Business School" "Mumbai School of Business" "Bangalore School of Business" and "IILM Business School". They seriously send me these messages every single day.

Isn't this illegal?
don't they HAVE to have an unsubscribe option?
Is there some place I can report this?
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💬 5 comments

  1. paul ·

    Spam is so annoying but what does illegal mean in the global sense. Really its only a legal issue if sent from americans to americans. How are you getting them, doesn't your email have a filter you can block with?

  2. metalpeter ·

    Not sure how you do this, but if you can find the sender there should be a way in your e-mail to block that sender

  3. tinypliny ·

    Can you view the raw-email and identify the IP they are originating from? See how to do this here: :::link:::
    Then, you can either:
    a) Block that complete IP in your email client/provider as a spam. There must be a way to do this in the spam management section of your particular email. For example Gmail has an IP blacklist that has slowly been created and fine-tuned through spam reports such as these.
    b) If your email provider is your ISP, report that IP to your ISP and say they are harassing you. They might block the IP from sending communication to you from their side - but most ISPs couldn't care less even if you are being murdered in cold blood.
    c) Maybe use a service like SpamCop? :::link::: I am not really sure how effective these people are, though.

    I hate spam. I really despise people who think they can send you friend requests or whatever all the time. It is so annoying.

  4. jenks ·

    yeah, my email does filter them out as spam. They end up in my junk box. Still, I just like to stop them. My ISP actually does a good job- i get very little spam (as opposed to my gmail account, which is just not even usable any more). And I have checked the ISP- these all seem to be REAL schools in India. I just don't know how I got on their list, and I want to get off.

  5. tinypliny ·

    That's interesting. My gmail is so effective in filtering out spam, almost 650 odd emails a day end up in the spam folder and I blanket-ignore them all. On rare occasion some useful emails end up there, but thus far, I haven't missed anything important enough.

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