I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'm pretty sure people have been warning about this for 20 years.
Only use the "unsubscribe" feature of something you deliberately signed up for. Anything else is spam, so delete it or report it. This is important: even if it looks like a legitimate company, if you didn't ask for it, it's spam.
Even though all this is pretty basic, people who are not tech savvy actually get trapped by these scammers pretty often which means awareness is lacking.
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I'm pretty sure people have been warning about this for 20 years.
Only use the "unsubscribe" feature of something you deliberately signed up for. Anything else is spam, so delete it or report it. This is important: even if it looks like a legitimate company, if you didn't ask for it, it's spam.
Even though all this is pretty basic, people who are not tech savvy actually get trapped by these scammers pretty often which means awareness is lacking.