Hi. I’m one of those weekly email newsletters that happen to dispatch one email to you every 5 minutes. I come from random sites that you haven’t heard of. I’m sure you signed up for this and are eager to read every word in this 10MB of email, so read the following crap closely.

[…] random promotion of some random product […]

And if you would like to unsubscribe from this series of newsletters, assuming you can read this 2px white font on white background, click here. But oh wait the words “click here” actually don’t link to anything. If you are smart, you’ll realize that the link is commented out with html <!-- . So look at the source of the email and try out every link that might look like the unsubscribe link.

If you have gotten to that link, congratulations. Really, because the makers of me have spent countless numbers of hours trying to prevent you from unsubscribing this spam. I mean information.

So you’ve clicked the link, it’ll ask you for a series of questions regarding why you are unsubscribing. The trick here is, you have to fill in all the fields. But really, the form doesn’t lead to a dynamic page at all, but a rather simple html page telling you that a confirmation email about your unsubscription has been sent.

If you have a watch (or calendar), you’ll realize that after at least a month or two, you have received the confirmation email. So you click the link that leads to another page telling you that another email has been sent just FYI and in case you want to subscribe again. Oh, and note that this email will be sent every day as well, including all the crap from the original newsletters. JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO SUBSCRIBE AGAIN.