Ask the spammer to remove you from the list. Chances are that the entire process has been automated and typing remove is all that will be required. Spammers mine this AOL feature for personal data about you. Chat rooms, Instant Messenger and ICQ are other programs that Spammers use to mine email addresses. Free email addresses and free Internet services often times sell your personal information to advertisers.
Nothing is really free , folks.
We will do our best to thwart them. Turn off the cookies feature on your browser. You will find this buried in Properties or Internet Options , usually under Advanced Options on the Tools heading of your browser's toolbar. Uncheck the Accept Cookies option. Note that you will not be able to use some features on the Internet, such as e-commerce site unless you accept cookies.