A sucker list is a list of contact details for people suspected to be vulnerable to various types of scam and these lists are sold by scammers and hackers to other scammers.

The lists are usually made up of people who have replied to scam emails, texts or letters or they can be details of people who have fallen for a scam, as people who have been scammed before have a higher probability of falling for a subsequent scam.

Once your name is on a sucker list, you are likely to be inundated with scam emails, texts and letters.

Your details may end up on a suckers list simply because you made an online donation to charity or click a link in an email without checking what it was for or for downloading an APP from a site that isn’t Google or APPLE.

Some organisations sell their contact lists to others without properly checking that the buyer is trustworthy or maybe hackers get into business contact data and upload it to the dark web.

Can You Remove Your Name from Sucker Lists?

That isn’t possible,  as these people are criminals so any request to them to stop sending you messages just confirms that the email address is active and hence worth more than a dead email address.

But there are ways to limit these solicitations and stay off future lists.

The Data & Marketing Association (DMA) is an industry trade group that offers a service called DMAchoice that allows users to remove their names from the mailing lists maintained by those members. But that only works with reputable companies.

If you think your details are on suckers lists the only answer is to change your telephone number, logins and passwords etc. even this can be time consuming and inconvenient.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.