Originally posted here by pwaring
I had a problem with spam whereby I complained about junk text messages, and instead of stopping those the company added the email address I used to complain with to their mailing list, so I got more junk from them! Every time I emailed to say "stop sending me this rubbish", they just kept adding me to their list instead of removing me.
The 'click this to stop recieving mail' on spam mail is ALWAYS a ploy to get you to verify that the email the mail was sent to exists. Spammers often try random names and only add those to a list that reply. Never click that link. It never works.