Post #86388 by freddiefreelance on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 1:20 PM

On 2004-04-15 13:00, Humuhumu wrote:

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.

I just received 1 on my Yahoo spam magnet account that was spoofed as [email protected] saying Virii were being emailed from my account & to open the attached zip file with the included password. Needless to say I didn't & [email protected] sent me an email telling me that those emails were the Bagel virus spreading itself.