At 11:22 AM 12/19/01 -0500, Peter Kaulback wrote the following: >An acquaintance of mine has had her email address harvested and now the >address is being used to send porn related spam. Also she is now >receiving a flood of bounced emails from recipients of the spam. >Is there any solution to this irritation? >Thank you, and happy holidays.
Have her change her e-mail address and get a "throwaway" account like Hotmail or Yahoo mail to hide her real e-mail address. If you can't do that (like me) then you have to do the following: Get copies of the bounced spam. Check headers to find out the actual sender address. Contact them or the next higher level ISP and complain to them about a "spammer". Lots of work but the results usually justify it. Also contact SpamCop (http://spamcop.net/) as they now handle these addresses with amazing efficiency. To track the level where an ISP is concerned you just need to use a whois (like http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois) server and look at the Domain servers address to find the next higher level. For example, a whois check on imagicomm.com shows NS5.ESOSOFT.NET 206.142.247.5 NS6.ESOSOFT.NET 206.142.247.6 So esosoft hosts imagicomm. If you had problems with imagicomm and they didn't help you could always contact esosoft and complain. Likewise you can move higher up the tree if esosoft didn't help. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
