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Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

90% of my emails are this shit and itโ€™s so tiring

23 comments
Joshua Barretto

@gamingonlinux @AndyGER New genre of spam post: "Try our new AI POWERED spam post detection software!"

Mivey

@gamingonlinux Shoutout to Jessica, though. She does not want to waste your time, no sir.

Joshua Barretto

@gamingonlinux We appreciate your sacrifice for the sake of good reporting!

Jay Little

@gamingonlinux I get a lot of those even for my own website, which is just a hole in the wall compared to yours. It is quite annoying. They seem to go in waves too. This week it's been all about trying to sell me on bookkeeping services. Last week it was all about phone service. So weird...

Kevin Wammer | cliophate :ok:

@gamingonlinux we get these too. Itโ€™s not spam, so they are never marked as them but ugh are they annoying.

sebsauvage

@gamingonlinux
I also get this kind of bullshit.
I have a ready-made answer : I ask for 1 million euros.

mattmaison

@gamingonlinux

I'm head of research for a real estate finance firm and my inbox looks very similar.

Arsimael Inshan

@gamingonlinux Time to change your email address.

Put on a Autoresponder which sais:
"Due to spam, this postbox is no longer available. Please get the updated email address from my website. Thank you"

Those which want to reach you, will know where to go. Those who don't want to go that extra step are mostly spammers or people which don't have anything important to say.*

*dont forget to notify your close colleagues and friends manually.

In future: divide your email usage. I'd you have your own domain and can create your own accounts create aliases.
Gaming@example.com for gaming relates stuff. Press@example.com for press related stuff. You can put sieve filters on those mail addresses.

Last but not least: work with indicators.
gaming+epic@example.com this is rfc standard. This mail gets delivered to gaming@example.com.

If Spam drops in, you k ow from where this comes.

@gamingonlinux Time to change your email address.

Put on a Autoresponder which sais:
"Due to spam, this postbox is no longer available. Please get the updated email address from my website. Thank you"

Those which want to reach you, will know where to go. Those who don't want to go that extra step are mostly spammers or people which don't have anything important to say.*

db0

@gamingonlinux I get this shite for my blog as well. They ever have the gall to send a follow-up or two after they don't get a reply.

dhbirb

@gamingonlinux this reply is sponsored by SurfShark VPN.

omg! ubuntu

@gamingonlinux Sometimes for fun, and probably I have an inner troll, I reply to these kinds of emails. Sometimes I act really naive and dumb and string them along for a bit, or I just flat-out troll and reply to them with "Hi {%spam_marking_co}, I received your email and have forwarded to dev/null. Please await my immediate response from there." Etc.

I think I might be secretly evil.

nik-o-mat.de

@gamingonlinux If the mails are somehow real, I answer with a quite high price for a paid article. Something like 1.800โ‚ฌ per week on the front-page of my blog. But always marked as "paid content". Sometimes they reply with "that's over the budget" and if they could get a discount. But sorry, discount is only available for long term bookers. Above 20k advertisements. Then they stfu.๐Ÿ˜

AlternativeTo

@gamingonlinux I can relate, we receive a LOT of emails like that daily, and it's pretty annoyingโ€ฆ

TechteamGB

@gamingonlinux mine is the same. I must get 200 emails a day offering "guest posts", cheap tat to review, scam sponsorship offers and plenty more. I've even started getting people trying to sell me their various services like video editing by telling me I'm an amateur with wasted potential! Amazing sales technique!

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