Why Am I Getting Spam Emails From Dating Sites?

Do you keep getting spam emails from dating sites, even if you’ve never paid any of those a visit? Even worse, do you sometimes get adult content spam from some obscure sites you have never even heard of?

Unfortunately, the only reason why you received a spam email of any kind could be because you have an email address. The dating and adult content spam emails could land in your inbox for a variety of reasons, all of which we will unpack in the article below.

The good news is that you can learn how to stop spam emails effortlessly and quickly.

Why Do You Receive Unsolicited Spam Email From Dating Sites?

If you signed up for a certain dating site, you also had to agree to the service’s terms of use and the privacy policy. In all likelihood, by accepting the company’s terms, you also agreed to receive emails of commercial or promotional nature from it. Learn how to unsubscribe from emails here.

Things get more complicated if you never crossed paths with the spam email sender before. Dating or adult content spam emails can find their way to your inbox in seemingly mysterious ways. You never even heard of that mail-order bride website from a post-Soviet country, so why are you suddenly being invited to pick your soulmate from an online catalog?

The only reasonable conclusion is that the spamming website got your information in a way that was either illegal or your details were shared legally, but you weren’t aware of it.

Refer to this succinct breakdown of the most common reasons you received that email, and whether it was illegal:

Find out here how to report spam email and curb this particular type of annoyance. Reporting email abuse is even more critical, so inform the relevant authorities as soon as you can.

Tracking the Source of Dating Site Spam Email—When You Never Visited That Website

Here are the three most probable reasons you got a spam email from a random dating site you never visited or signed up for:

1. Spammers bought a mailing list that contained your email address
2. Another company shared your data to an affiliate company
3. There’s been a user data leak

Spammers Bought a Mailing List That Contained Your Email Address

Online data aggregators (also known as data miners) collect users’ information on the internet, package it up, then sell it to interested parties. The buyers are mostly businesses, but scammers get their hands on these lists, too.

Another possibility is that you’ve entered your data on a phishing or scam website that was created solely to trick people into giving out their personal information.

As a measure of caution, you shouldn’t share your email information in a way that’s publicly available on the internet. Even more importantly, verify the legitimacy of any website that asks you to disclose your details.

Another Company Shared Your Data to an Affiliate Company

When you’re signing up for a new service, do you read the fine print of the company’s terms and conditions and its privacy policy? Some companies reserve the right to share your information with their network or affiliate sites, so these third parties are allowed to email you according to the law.

There’s Been a User Data Leak

A data breach or spill is a type of security violation in which confidential or protected data falls in the hands of an unauthorized individual. Hacker attacks often target major companies that store massive amounts of user data, including email addresses.

If a business suffers a data breach, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC) mandates that it falsely required to inform all affected individuals.

Keep a Lid on Spam Email With DoNotPay

Keeping your inbox free of spam can sometimes take as much time as replying to your actual, non-spam emails. On the plus side, DoNotPay has devised a clever way to stop receiving emails of little or no value to you.

Our method takes the work out for you. All you need to do is:

1. Open DoNotPay in any web browser
2. Select Spam Collector
3. Enter your email address and link it to DoNotPay
4. Wait until you receive your next spam email, then forward it to us at spam@donotpay.com

Two things will happen:

• We’ll unsubscribe you from that mailing list automatically
• We’ll check if there’s a class-action lawsuit against the sender

If the spammer spammed you in a way that was against the law (they didn’t have your consent to send you that email or they didn’t provide an unsubscribe option), we’ll see if there’s a class-action lawsuit against them.

If there is, we’ll notify you and ask you if you would like to be included in it. Once you’ve been added to the lawsuit, a flag icon will show up in the Spam Collector tab on your DoNotPay dashboard.

Should the court rule against the individual or company behind the email, you might get up to $500 in compensation for your troubles, making this the perfect little spam email revenge.

DoNotPay Also Helps You Clean Out Your Physical Mailbox

Even if spam email doesn’t bother you too much, an actual mailbox overflowing with junk mail is difficult to tolerate on the best of days. Most people feel clueless about stopping the neverending stream of physical junk email—for one, there is no unsubscribe button available.

Luckily, you no longer have to wonder how to get rid of your unsolicited mail—simply let us do it for you! All you need to do is take a photo of your received post, then send it to us.

This is how it works:

1. Go to the DoNotMail option on the DoNotPay homepage
2. Hit the Enroll Now button
3. Upload your photos

We’ll get in touch with the junk email senders in your stead and request that they remove you from their mailing list.

If the sender is a scammer or they breached the law in some other way, there may be a class-action lawsuit against them. If that’s the case, we’ll notify you, and you’ll have the option to be added to the plaintiffs’ list. How does $500 of compensation money sound?

DoNotPay Protects Your Privacy and Finances

Sharing your credit card details online comes with certain risks, and it’s getting more difficult to tell good and bad websites apart. With DoNotPay’s virtual credit card generator, you will be able to protect your identity and bank account from cyber scammers.

Whenever you run into a suspicious email or website, generate a virtual credit card and proceed without worries. Our virtual cards also work like a charm if you want to avoid automatic payments after free trials.

DoNotPay—a Shortcut to Solving More Than One Problem

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