Not to kill the vibe (if you’re having fun then by all means continue) but replying is probably the worst thing you can do - all you’re doing is telling the spammers that you have an active email address, so they’ll send more spam.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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They're actually sending me relevant sales pitches with my business name in the subject, so I think they already know it's active 😅
Dick pics.
They don’t have to be your dick.
I never see them. The spam filter removes them. Can’t remember last time I saw a mail like that.
You don't check your spam folder? Or they don't even show up in your spam folder?
Not the original commenter, but I haven't had a single thing in my email spam folder since I made it
Why would I? It's full of spam.
You don’t check your spam folder?
Why would you? Unless something you wanted wasn't showing up why would I voluntarily want to look at spam?
I only get like one or two spam emails per day, and sometimes important stuff ends up in there that I wasn't even expecting to receive. Also I like it when all my folders show 0 unread emails lol
If you're okay with involving LLMs in this, you can use it to string them along and make them think you're falling for the scam (I assume it's a scam because I've never heard of a legitimate business using tactics like this). That way they waste their time chasing a lead that will never actually net them any money, and prevents them from scamming someone else in that time.
Don't even need an automated system for this, just paste their email into an AI and paste the phony response back.
I think of all the ways AI is being used, messing with scammers is one of the ways that's actually beneficial for society. You can self host a Deepseek instance on your own computer and it doesn't actually use that much energy.