Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008.01.23. 17:17, Twayne wrote: > ... >> Vishal, >> >> Since there is no way to know who this is and he seems completely >> unknown to the group, I would simply ignore him, or if you know how >> to parse headers, issue a complaint if there are forgeries in any of >> the headers. >> Newsgroups are favorite plaes for robots and crawlers to scrape >> e-mail addresses. Since we have to use our real e-mail addresses it >> makes it easy for bots and crawlers to find the adresses if they get >> past the defenses in place, whatever they are. >> If the headers and the given address can be believed , and I think >> they can, the mail came from Taiwan (.tw). It appears he may not >> realize he's technically spamming but I've already received two of >> his mails, identical to your, and if I get a third I will LART him >> with prejudice unless there are no forged headers, in which case >> he'll get one more chance to stop mailing me along with a form not >> to him about his spamming. > > i have received 3 or 4 emails of this type to my personal email, now > this. both from formatting and contents they seem very suspicious, > more like an actual spam/scam. > quite annoying.
I agree. Such things, unsolicited, to a personal e-mail account definitely meet the definitions and criteria for spam. However, whether he's honest, a spammer and selling addresses/info or planning to deliver malware is hard to be certain. of. Because of the lack of forgery and it being so easy to pinpoint him, I suspect it's a newbie but for what purposes I don't know; maybe all he does want is a survey, but I won't bother to find out since it was spammed to me. When I suspect newbies I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt ONE TIME and once only; after that they suffer the same consequences as any other spammer. I'd say since you've received 4 at the same address, he's definitely after more than just a survey and past the point of deserving courtesy of any kind, OR has already sold the list to other people. If you'd like reporting addresses, let me know and I'll look them up. Do NOT send anything to HIM!! The idea is to get his account/s closed, not alert him that you read his spam and thus your address is "confirmed", meaning he can charge more for it. If you've had any kind of contact/response with him or clicked anything in his spam though, you can technically no longer call it spam and must suffer the consequences yourself until you've told him flat out to not e-mail you again. After that, anything he sent would be spam but I'd imagine he'd just whitewash your name off his list if you did that. And sell your address to other spammers. Sucks; but that's the way of the 'net these days. Twayne > >> From the X-Headers, it looks like they use Ironport's Spamcop.net >> for spam detection, and that's a very useful outfit. They are good >> at stopping it, but not prefect; sometimes things get by them. The >> spam score appears they just barely scraped past the filters with >> the spams to the group. >> My advice right now would be to simply ignore it and delete/mark it >> read, since there's no way of knowing what the guy is recording in >> addition to his survey. >> >> HTH >> >> Twayne -- Please reply to the newsgroup so everyone benefits. E-mails may not be responded to. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
