Just a few minutes ago I received an unsolicited commercial email from ComShop / DigitCom. It was a multipart text/html email and I have reposted the HTML part verbatim here.
I don’t recall ever having bought anything from these guys, but I buy a lot of stuff online, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt and clicked on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page. That’s when I started to get a little suspicious, the URL I was being sent to contained no information that could identify me to the site. The unsubscribe link points here and, just on the offchance it disappears, I’ve also put it here (the image does not display). Look at the source, it’s just static HTML.
In other words, their unsubscribe link does nothing at all, whilst claiming you have been unsubscribed. That’s breathtakingly deceitful.
Enjoy the publicity guys.