Re: Histonet Soliciters (Ominous spam)
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From: | oshel@terracom.net (Philip Oshel) (by way of histonet) |
To: | histonet <histonet@magicnet.net> |
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John's advice is basically true, but the best place to send a spam report
is to "abuse" at the domain from which the spam was sent. For instance,
this morning's spam (on another list) came from:
From: info@cyber-host.net
To: user@the.internet
Ignoring the "To" field, a "Please remove this spammer from your servers"
message was sent to:
abuse@cyber-host.net
This usually gets the spammers account(s) quickly closed.
The headers do need to be examined to make sure they're not bogus-fake
addresses are usually told as they often contain some reference to the
sender or content of the spam.
Phil
> Whatever you do, DON'T reply directly to any email
> spam, and NEVER follow the advice to send a message
> with "remove" in the Subject line" This will confirm
> that your address is still active, and the spamming
> will increase. Send spam reports to the postmaster
> of your own email server, who should know what to do.
>
> If someone telephones you because of an email, report
> him/her to everyone you can think of, and tell all
> your friends never to buy anything from that
> company again. Tell the wretched telemarketing kid
> to tell his miserable boss that there are no takers.
> John A. Kiernan,
> Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology,
> The University of Western Ontario,
> LONDON, Canada N6A 5C1
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