Annoyed by casino spam emails? Read here what you can do to prevent spam and stop it as much as possible.
Do you know that feeling?
You open your email, and amid the nice and useful messages, it’s suddenly flooded with spam from online casinos. They all promise you the best casino bonus in the world, and sometimes even 150 free spins, but in reality, they’re shady gambling sites you don’t want to play at.
Irritating!
But what do you do about it?
Completely eradicating casino spam is difficult — spam has existed as long as email has existed.
There are, however, a few handy tactics to prevent junk mail as much as possible. And, if you’re already receiving spam emails, ensure that it at least doesn’t get worse.
Spam is almost never from reputable, well-known online casinos. Licensed online casinos have a reputation to uphold and could even lose their license by sending unsolicited advertising.
Sometimes it may seem like you’re receiving spam from a well-known online casino, but almost always, it’s a third party sending advertising emails without the casino’s permission.
4 tips to prevent casino spam
Mr. Casino lists four tips to prevent being overwhelmed with junk mail.
1) Two email addresses
The simplest tactic is to keep two separate email addresses. One is your ‘real’ address, which you use for official correspondence and to email friends and family.
You use the other address whenever you sign up for something on the internet, like a forum, a contest, or an online casino.
If all goes well, you’ll only receive potential junk mail on the second address.
If spam gets out of hand on your second address, you get a new second address.
2) A separate address for each casino
If you play at multiple online casinos, you may want to create a separate email address for each casino. For example, [email protected] for Casino A and [email protected] for Casino B.
If you suddenly start receiving spam emails on one of your addresses, you’ll know for sure who sold your address.
Legal casinos with a Dutch license definitely won’t sell your email address. If they do, they could lose their license and face a huge fine.
3) The + trick with Gmail
Gmail has a very handy feature that allows you to create as many email addresses as you want, while all mail still comes into one inbox.
After your username, put a + and a word of your choice. For example, [email protected]. All mail sent to this address will still arrive in your regular inbox. Handy!
Optionally, you can filter all mail to the different addresses with a + in them and have it go into a separate folder.
4) Never post your email in a public forum
Another important tip to stop casino spam: never post your email address in a public forum.
Not in guestbooks, condolence registers, or anywhere else.
If you do, you can almost be sure that your address will be picked up by robots that scour the entire internet for addresses. Say goodbye to your tidy inbox.
What if you’re already receiving casino spam?
There is one golden rule regarding spam: never respond to it.
It’s best not to open the email at all.
Definitely don’t click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. If you do, the spammer will know that you’re still using your email address and reading their emails. There’s a chance you’ll actually receive even more spam.
Replying to the spam is a bad idea for the same reason.
What should you do? Click the Junk or Spam button for the message in your email app. The more people do this, the better, because then emails from that sender will be delivered to everyone’s spam folder.
What you can also do is complain to the customer service of the casino advertised in the email. As mentioned, online casinos rarely send unsolicited emails themselves and are happy when you point out spam to them.
Based on the email, the casino can find out who sent the spam and reprimand that party.