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| vtsteam:
--- Quote from: clivel on April 27, 2013, 02:40:52 AM --- As a result, instead of just filtering and deleting these emails I thought that I would at least try and do my bit to put the thieves out of business by forwarding the emails to the abuse department of the various email service providers. The only odd one out is Yahoo. Instead of taking action Yahoo sends an automated email response directing one to a web page which explains how a Yahoo account holder can report received spam. There appears to be no mechanism for non-Yahoo account holders to be able to report emails received from a Yahoo account :bang: I still get a few fraudulent emails on a daily basis, but now 100% of these emails have a Yahoo return address because Yahoo is the only email provider that condones fraud. Boycott Yahoo! :( --- End quote --- Instead of sending the offending emails to the respective abuse departments you might try simply sending it to Spamcop -- who will analyze the email, extract the true sender address(es) (often obfuscated) and report to the correct source server's abuse adress, as well as add the spam message and true sender to public spam lists so the message can be filtered by email servers and stopped. Spamcop: http://www.spamcop.net/ |
| Stilldrillin:
Andy. Both "yours and johns", were twins, in sequence in my inbox. Unfortunately, I deleted forever, without opening........ I'm with gmail. And I understand nothing of the mechanism, behind the inbox screen. David D |
| clivel:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on April 27, 2013, 09:18:48 PM ---Instead of sending the offending emails to the respective abuse departments you might try simply sending it to Spamcop -- who will analyze the email, extract the true sender address(es) (often obfuscated) and report to the correct source server's abuse adress, as well as add the spam message and true sender to public spam lists so the message can be filtered by email servers and stopped. Spamcop: http://www.spamcop.net/ --- End quote --- Hi vtsteam, Thanks, I do forward all spam to both spamcop as well as http://www.knujon.com and highly recommend both services. They work by contacting the source server and more importantly also advise what ever company is hosting the "spamvertised" web sites in the hope of getting the web sites shut down. Unfortunately however they are not really effective when it comes to the Nigerian Scam as these emails are sent with a forged "from" address and from places like internet cafes which have no actual connection to the sender. The only valid information is the reply address for the intended victim to reply to. Neither spamcop nor knujon parse the "reply to" address which is why I forward the emails to the abuse department of that particular company instead. From my experience so far, other than Yahoo, the companies do shut these "reply to" addresses down. Clive |
| vtsteam:
Ah, sounds even better! |
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