This email will probably only work against legit only stores but may work with others. I wouldn’t try this on a spammer because that really wouldn’t work. There are to many large words for the Nigerian spam lords to interpret and sending an email to a spammer would only confirm that your email is valid. That would only exacerbate your problem and take you further away from online anonymity.

Below is the email I sent to classmates.com. They have/had my email address and I never signed up, nor will I ever sign up, for their service. Something seems a bit fishy about their business practices and having to opt in (create an account) only to opt out again, does not seem conducive to my online rights. Hence my boycott. It took some digging, but I found a working email address that wouldn’t send me back the standard “screw off, we don’t monitor this account” email.

To: “Classmates” <membercare@mc.classmates.com>
Subject: Re: Forgot Email or Registration

Please remove *******@*****.com from your email database immediately. I will not be making an account to remove it, and I doubt the legality in which you came to have that email address in your system. You have 3 (three) business days to respond or I will be filing a grievance with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive business practices.
Regards

There is some validity to my email and in a coming post, I will explain more about digital rights. The Can SPAM act was a pretty nice piece of legislation.