VIRUS ALERT! - Beyond Tiki

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 1:00 PM On 2004-04-15 12:47, Swanky wrote: If you want to do something to try to stop it, when you get a spam, forward it as an attachment to abuse@thedomainitcamefrom. So if you get spam from [email protected] send it as an attachemnt to [email protected] That should get it to the attention of the admin who should shut them down. SHOULD! Sadly, this may not be the thing to do anymore. Spammers use spoofed email accounts these days, so the owners of those email accounts are totally innocent. I've received spam that came from the flipnik.com domain that I own. Spoofing an email address is trivial.

On 2004-04-15 12:47, Swanky wrote:
If you want to do something to try to stop it, when you get a spam, forward it as an attachment to abuse@thedomainitcamefrom. So if you get spam from [email protected] send it as an attachemnt to [email protected] That should get it to the attention of the admin who should shut them down. SHOULD!

Sadly, this may not be the thing to do anymore. Spammers use spoofed email accounts these days, so the owners of those email accounts are totally innocent. I've received spam that came from the flipnik.com domain that I own. Spoofing an email address is trivial.

Post #86379 by Humuhumu on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 1:00 PM