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How to deal with phishing scam/spam

You've all seen these too. "Your email box is full, please go to such-and-such site and re-enter your handle and password" being a stripped down version.

The solution is obvious: always, always respond but fill in false information. If the scammers get thousands of replies full of nonsense, they will be hard pressed to figure out which ones are legitimate. Maybe!

They spam us, we reverse-spam them.

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