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- ilmarine
so, for the past several days i have received returned mails: user unknown e-mails from mostly aol mail server but other companies as well. every day there have been about a hundred of them. the from address is mine so this message is sent to me.
the subjects range from "hi" to "help me" to "find out where women go to get laid". the recipients adresses are mostly made out of letters and number or parts of words - a classic case of a dictionary file.
i know that i haven't sent these mails. i also know that i don't have a virus that sends them. and it is starting to annoy me.
how is it possible to track these e-mails to their original sender? if the original sender was a spammer, would (s)he stop using my e-mail or would (s)he intensify his/her actions as is the case when replying to spam?
anybody?
- Bertrand0
Yes there is a way to trace spam.
You can register for free with http://www.spamcop.net
You will have to forward each piece of spam to them and they will create an automatic abuse report.
- unfittoprint0
in Outlook, double click the email, go to File, Properties, Details.
There you can check the sender's ISP and IP.
use them if you want to complain about it.
- unknown0
Didn't know that about Outlook and been using it for a while now.
I hate spam. My site host has some good e-mail features, filters, spamassasin, and I've just recently gotten it set up just right.
It was hilarious adding words to the filters list. From there e-mails are analyzed before getting to the inbox by spamassasin, and there's also a filter that takes e-mails it identifies and deletes them.
I don't think anything important has slipped through.I would love to bombard the people sending this stuff with millions of e-mails, give them their own poison.
- Bertrand0
I don't think you can see the full header of the email with Outlook. You can in the properties with Outlook Epxress but spammers are using fake headers so the ony way to trace the email properly is spamcop.
- unfittoprint0
you can fake sender'email and name, even return-path with a simple PHP mail code.... but faking the sender's ISP and IP is much more difficult...
- moth0
do these people actually get anything out of it? I mean are there fools out there who actually buy the shit they are pushing?
- monkeyshine0
I had this happen to me last week and my host guy told me to remove the "catch all" I had set up. I guess its easy to hijack someone's domain for spam.
I'd like to see some stats on who the $@%! actually buys products from a spam mail. I must get like 10 emails in a day about Viagra, Refinancing, and then the occasional hot teen girls home alone with a web cam. ggrrrr.
- k0na_an0k0
yesterday alone i got hit up with 22 emails for increasing my penis size. each time from a different domain name like ffudilfdskfdal.com and shit. so i did a quick search on google for the actual site cause when i click in the link from hotmail it opens in that "hotmail" window.
i found the "who is" info for the guy who owns the site and grabbed his email address.
i then searched google for "free newsletters" and signed him up for all of them i could find. shit... one site even offered 150 newsletters with 1 click of the button.
fuck him. i wonder how he likes it? i haven't received a sigle email for "enlarging my penis" yet today.
heh heh.
- monkeyshine0
kona, good for you!
oh yeah, I forgot about the enlarging penis ones. How come I never get enlarging breast ones?
- mrdobolina0
they must have deemed your penis size to be adequate, Kona.
- unknown0
excellent kona.
but how did you get his hotmail address open?
- k0na_an0k0
now that i thought of it it was for "enlargo".
and i created a bogus email on yahoo with a bunch of b.s. info and sent him an attachment via email of the hugest c*ck i could find on the ol' internet saying i didn't need his product.
that was the highlight of my day.
- unfittoprint0
kona, pleaaaase post that 150 newsletter sign site... there's some spammers that should taste some of their own stuff...
- tfs__mag0
I'd like to receive on for "the penis mightier", will it really mighty my penis man?
- k0na_an0k0
mg33, i searched google for "enlargo" and found the actual site. i then took that domain name and searched for the owner. once i found his address i made sure it was real by doing another search for who ownes it.
after that i just went around signing him up for all the newsletters.
i have his home address too and i'm contemplating siging him up for about a hundred magazines checking the "bill me later" box.
haven't made up my mind yet.
- unfittoprint0
there was this very funny site of a guy that actually replied to these porn and debt spam email...
Does anyone know the link to this?...
- k0na_an0k0
yo unfittoprint, a quick search on google will yield an s-load. just be carefull of the ones that somewhere state "you will recieve a confirmation email for signup." or "your ip address will be checked blah blah".
other than that have fun. there are thousands of them.
i'll look for the big one though.
- k0na_an0k0
http://newsletters.expressindia.…
http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/…
make sure you click all of them and make sure when applicable you select the "daily" button.
- k0na_an0k0
I WILL WARN YOU ALL THOUGH!
NT will can your butt if they find out you did this to any one of their members or staff for any reason.
You should ONLY use this for the power of good.
- unfittoprint0
'You should ONLY use this for the power of good.'
hear that, obi-wan.