Hi Sudhir, The simplest way to tackle this problem would be for your colleague to close the existing e-mail account and open a new one. She should then refrain from subscribing to mailing lists or passing on that address to everyone she knows. She can thus restrict the e-mail inflow and avoid spam.
On the other hand, if she is receiving spam messages at her work address, she should report this to the company's IT department. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sudhir R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Access India" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:54 AM Subject: [AI] Uncovering the tracks of a spammer... > Hi folks ! > > A female colleague has been receiving obscene mails for the last few > months which have become threatening of late. They are not in the general > mould of spams usually directed at mail domains and as soon as she spams > out one particular id, spam with the same content starts from another > source. She cannot spam out all strange mail ids since she also processes > business-related mails in the same account. > > Since the content is uniform, she suspects the handiwork of someone she > knows. Unfortunately, the person seems to be shifting his accounts from > one web mail service to another. > > Now, the question is, can reporting the matter to Police help in some way > ? We know of instances where such spammers have been caught by some > co-ordinated effort between the Police, ISPs and web mail providers, but, > such instances have been all based on Indian web mail servers like > rediffmail, sify etc. Can such co-ordination be achieved with > international web mail servers like yahoo.com, hotmail.com etc ? And, > what if the person uses fraudulent identities to create such mail > accounts in the first place ? > > Kindly advise as the matter concerns personal privacy and safety and > urgent action needs to be taken. > > Thanks and regards > > RS > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
