Spam the Spammers in Outlook with an Auto Reply Mail.
Posted on October 20, 2008
Filed Under Outlook
I know it has been a bit silent on the World of Office but we are picking up the old pace shortly. Till then we will randomly post an article or two;).
Fortunately I have been able to keep my mail box pretty clean from Spam Mail. I’m really careful where I drop my mail address and where I sign up. I even have a gmail spam address for dubious sign ups and I only open this mail online and not in my Outlook.
But now I was going thru my deleted and spam mails and I noticed that I still received practically everyday an email from a company called BuyBlogReviews.com were I signed up a more than a year ago. You can register at this site for writing paid reviews. The only reviews that I write are via direct order and not via any organizations. I already deleted my blogs at this site and I repeatedly send them emails with the question to delete my account and that I’m not interested anymore but they still keep sending me those review opportunities.
Since they are not listening to me and they keep spamming me I decided to do the same back to them. I created an Auto Reply Rule in outlook with an email template that they need to stop spamming me and I’d send the emails to all the valid addresses that I could find on their website.
Set Up a Game Plan to Spam the Spammers!!
But before we go on; you do realize that this will only work with legit companies that refuse to remove you from their mailing list, real spammers couldn’t care less about a reply mail.
What are the things you need to think of…
1. The Spam mail needs to be automatically removed from your Inbox and Unread mail folder and then you’ll need to create a rule for sending the reply mail.
2. You’ll also need to have an email template that you can use.
3. As many reply email addresses as possible.
First Step is to Create an Email Template.
· Open a new (empty) email.
· Insert some nice friendly lines of text 
This was mine.
The subject was; I’m sick of you guys!!!
And this was the body…
I have send you multiple emails and I’m sick of your mails, why won’t you delete my account??
The blogs that I had registered were
www.XXXXX.com
www.XXXXX.com
www.XXXXX.com
Every time you send me an email you get it back automatically. You are now spamming yourself!
Now you also need to add here the receivers;
· support@…
· sales@…
· info@…
· webmaster@…
Are all winners
Now click the Office button in the top left and select Save As.
If you change the ‘Save as type’ field to “Outlook Template (*.oft). By default, the file will be saved in the Template folder.
· And click Save.
· And close the template.
· If asked click No when asked if you wish to save draft.
If you wish to check your template, you can click the drop down box next to the New button and select Choose Form. From here you’ll need to go to the selection to “User Templates in File System”.
The Next Step is to Create the Rule in MS Outlook.
· Open the Spam mail.
· Select Create Rule.
· And select the From email address.
· Now select Advanced Options
· Click Next because you already assigned the first step.
· Then select “move it to” and select the Junk E-mail folder.
· Now select “mark it as read” but this has my own preference and isn’t necessarily needed.
· And select “reply using a specific template”.
Here you’ll need to select the template that you created earlier and you can do that by clicking on “a specific template” in the lower box and by electing the “User Templates in File System”.
Then Click Next, Next and Finish and that’s it. You are now Spamming the Spammer and you don’t have to do a thing for it.
And for your information I received and email from buyblogreviews.com within 3 days that they deleted my account permanently.
Have fun with this useful Tip and Trick and I’ll talk to you soon!!
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Cool, thnx for posting this information.
I didn’t knew that this is/was possible, to spam them back
I also have a company that do this to me. I gonna use this tip&trick, hopefully it works for me too
Thanks again!
Thanks, Vincent. It is very useful for those who are boring with the spam mails.
Really a bit silent these days.
I was a little bit to enthusiastic bout this tip and trick
, it works only in Outlook, not in Gmail or other mailprogramms…
Thought I could solve this problem at all
But for all Outlook users I still mean this is a very worthfull tip!
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Can you please provide more details on this?
What did you have in mind?
Outlook only replies once per user, per session. Do you know how to get it to reply EACH time you get the email if you haven’t restarted Outlook?
Hi All,
I work at BuyBlogReviews.com and I can assure you that we don’t spam. You can always turn these notifications off from your account homepage and this is mentioned in all the mails that are sent from our system to all our bloggers. If you don’t read any mails or if you dont see things with attention then its your fault not ours.
Your account was deleted only because you requested it to be deleted not because you were spamming back.
Well I can assure you were spamming, maybe now you can turn off the notifications but not a year ago. As you can see the post was written in October 2008.
And I can also assure you that my accounts weren’t deleted because I asked for it. Goodluck at Buy Blog Reviews.