The Globe and Mail today had an article about new “stealth” spamming techniques that evade filters. A lot of it, I’ve talked about before in this blog, but the article also has a great list of tips for not getting spam.

Although one of them, “Do not click on any links contained in a spam message, especially the “unsubscribe” links.” I’m not too sure about the validity there - I mean I get tons of spam and I’ve never seen real spam with an “unsubscribe” link. It’s just not even there. However, I hear this “warning” all the time, and it leads to people reporting legitimate opt-in email as spam (which causes problems for legitimate email marketers).

If anyone has any info or examples of this, please share with me!

UPDATE: OK I swear someone is playing a cruel joke on me, because the day after I posted this, I received this in my inbox… and I’ve gotten similar ones everyday since!

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