Most of the headers are faked in spam messages, so the chances of you sending to the correct "abuse@" address are very slim unless you REALLY know what you are doing.
If you want to be proactive about spam, signe up for a (free) SpamCom.net account. When you do, you will be given an email address to send your spam to. Then you log on to their site and they will digest it properly and determine the correct abuse address to send to, then all you do is click "send" and they will report it for you. It's an excellent service and I can't recommend it enough. -Steve On 3/31/02 8:26 PM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd always taken the position that the easiest thing to do about SPAM is to > delete it and that email virurses (virii?) needn't concern me because I have > a Mac. Recently, I've tried to be a little more pro-active about Spam and > have taken to writing to abuse@ the sender's ISP to ask them to stop it. But > today something happened that has me worried and I just thought I'd ask if > anyone else has seen anything like it. I received what looked to me like > Spam this morning - it purportedly came from a really weird email address > [EMAIL PROTECTED], the subject was A new Game and the body of the email > was: > Hi,This is a very new game > This game is my first work. > You're the first player. > I expect you would like it. > > There were two attachments, one called Snoopy.exe and one called > TN_3430(1).jpeg. Following my new procedure, I checked the internet headers > and discovered that the sender was supposedly at AOL. So I copied the > message and headers and sent it to abuse@AOL with a nice note asking them to > do something about it. I haven't yet heard back from them. > > But, what has me worried, a few minutes ago I received a standard-looking > "Returned mail; User Unknown" message from AOL. The message it was returning > was one I had not sent, and was addressed to an address I'd never heard of. > Entourage doesn't think I've sent any messages with the subject shown or the > addressee. The message's subject was "Arial, Helvetica" and it also had a > couple of attachments although neither was an exe. When I looked at the full > internet headers on the message I had supposedly sent, one of them was > exactly the same as one on the message I received earlier > (rly-ip01.mx.aol.com). Should I be worrying about this? Has my email account > been taken over by aliens? I've already sent copies of the messages to AOL > and to Earthlink (my ISP). Should I do anything else? -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
