Would Spam stop if people stopped responding to it? There has to be a non zero amount of stupid people that react to junk mail and make a purchase or fall for some scam. This number is only increasing with more people coming online.
>Would Spam stop if people stopped responding to it?
I don't ever intend to respond to spam, and have become extremely adept at spotting the patterns and swatting it away. However, it becomes a game of chance, when a service like Outlook puts it right at the top of the app (both iOS and Android) where you would reflexively jab at it, unless of course, you pay the premium to remove it.
For now, I have found a way to stop this nuisance. However, MS are playing fast and loose with their policies and now very legitimate looking spam is leaking into the inbox, escaping any filters. Since last year it is appearing along with the glaringly obvious Unicode riddled ones, with increasing regularity. It seems like a matter of time and co-incidence, where you would end up interacting with a piece of disguised mail you were expecting e.g. an order from Amazon or a service which you use regularly, and possibly respond without checking the header.
This recent episode was probably the worst experience, albeit not the first time it has happened.
There is a wide spectrum of unsolicited mail, not all of it is stupid people responding to scams. I suspect the quality and response curves are inversely related.
