OT - Annoying bogus survey emails

[Nitwit]

My inbox everyday is filled with these annoying bogus surveys promising a chance for some $50 gift prize if I just complete a short survey on behalf of Costco or some other supposedly name brand business, and all I have to do is pay $5.95 for shipping. Of course they want my credit card number in order to charge me for the luxury “free item” I’ve just won. Now I’m not that gullible as to give them any personal information as I realize it’s a phishing scam. But how do I get all these emails to stop coming to my mailbox every day. Does everyone get them? Has anyone ever replied to them or gotten caught in the scam? Are you enjoying your Dyson vacuum cleaner? Haha. All joking aside, it’s a freaking pain in the butt.

edit: as I wrote the above, this one arrived. I’m not even a Costco member.

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[Fox Chapel Lion II]

Never never NEVER - and I mean NEVER - click on the unsubscribe link. All that does is tell the scammers/phishers that they have a LIVE email address, which will immediately get packaged up and sold to other scammers.

Just delete. Often times you can block senders address on your email program. It's a PITA but there isn't a lot you can do about it.

 

[91Joe95]

My inbox everyday is filled with these annoying bogus surveys promising a chance for some $50 gift prize if I just complete a short survey on behalf of Costco or some other supposedly name brand business, and all I have to do is pay $5.95 for shipping. Of course they want my credit card number in order to charge me for the luxury “free item” I’ve just won. Now I’m not that gullible as to give them any personal information as I realize it’s a phishing scam. But how do I get all these emails to stop coming to my mailbox every day. Does everyone get them? Has anyone ever replied to them or gotten caught in the scam? Are you enjoying your Dyson vacuum cleaner? Haha. All joking aside, it’s a freaking pain in the butt.

edit: as I wrote the above, this one arrived. I’m not even a Costco member.

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About the only thing you can do is report it as spam, which is about effective as pissing into the wind, but not as rewarding. I keep separate emails for family and close friends, another for financial institutions like banks and investment firms, and a third for purchasing stuff, signing up for websites (like this site), etc.

 

[GrimReaper]

As I advice my wife when she frequently encounters the inconveniences of modern life, and what you describe is one of them, just learn to ignore this crap. The time and effort to simply dispose of it is considerably less than railing at it. Fixing it will never happen.

 

[republion]

Every time my wife buys something at a store, even a store she rarely shops at, they ask for her phone number, email, and mailing address. She provides the info without objection. I tell her all the time, just say “you don’t need that information “. If they persist give them obviously bogus info. I don’t know why she feels obligated to provide them our info for their database.