How do you report a cross posting spammer?
Tai Pan Too
I think Paypal would also be interested in knowing that their service is
being used as part of an illeagal pyramid scam.
I hate this crap and it doesn't belong here.
Mark
Phil(NM)
Tai Pan Too
include all the headers.
I guess they didn't get forwarded.
We'll see what happens.
Thanks.
Mark
"Phil(NM)" <gol...@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message
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Alan Balmer
<taip...@adelphia.net> wrote:
>The last time I tried by forwarding, I got a response that said I had to
>include all the headers.
>I guess they didn't get forwarded.
Yes, they need the headers to have any chance of tracking it. Headers
do not normally get forwarded. You appear to be using Outlook Express
- I don't know how to make that include the headers. With most mail
clients it's trivial - there must be a way in outlook.
--
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerc...@att.net
Tai Pan Too
Thanks for the reply.
Mark
"Alan Balmer" <alba...@att.net> wrote in message
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Binder
> simply forward it to ab...@paypal.com
>
> Tai Pan Too wrote:
>
>>Does anyone here know how to report a cross posting spammer?
>>I think Paypal would also be interested in knowing that their service is
>>being used as part of an illeagal pyramid scam.
There are others. If the spam uses a paypal address to harvest info:
sp...@paypal.com works fine.
Now, if you're serious about fighting spam, you'll need to look at the
headers (I'd do it now, but the article isn't quoted, so finding it in
all the previous posts will be tricky.) Finding the headers in a message
varies from program to program, but usually it will be found in the
"view" menu.
"2. e-mail Internet Headers [in Outlook]
Every received e-mail has Internet Headers. Using Microsoft Outlook
as an example (other mail programs are very similar), just follow these
steps to view the headers:
1. Right-click on the mail message that is still in your Outlook
Inbox
2. Select 'Options...' from the resulting popup menu
3. Examine the 'Internet Headers' in the resulting 'Message
Options' dialog
TIP: Right-click in the 'Internet Headers' field and click on
'Select All' in the popup menu (or type ctrl-A). Then right-click again
and click on 'Copy' in the popup menu (or type ctrl-C). Finally, paste
all the Internet Headers into your favorite text editor for full
examination (such as 'Notepad', included with Windows).
Example: What you see will be very similar to the following (with
'line numbers' added for clarity and discussion in following sections):
1: Received: from tes1a623.OneMail.com.sg ([203.127.89.129]) by
visualroute.com (8.11.6) id f9CIVSk24480; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:31:29
-0600 (MDT)
2: Message-Id: <200110121831...@s2.domain.com>
3: Received: from drb.com (IIM1608 [203.127.89.138]) by
tes1a623.OneMail.com.sg with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail
Service Version 5.5.2448.0)
4: id 4XNK9ATR; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:19:10 +0800
5: From: paylesslo...@somedomain.com
6: To: <>
7: Subject: Long Distance - 4.9 cents per min - NO FEES!
8: Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:24:26 -0400
9: X-Sender: paylesslo...@yahoo.com
10: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1
11: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
12: X-Priority: 3
13: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
14: X-UIDL: 8`Y!!0GR!!"?H"!k:O!!
15: Status: U
Header Line Syntax: The Internet Header Fields are just a series of
text lines, where each line looks like:
Header-Name: Header-Value
And if a line starts with a tab or spaces, like line 4 above, that
line is a continuation of the previous Header-Value line. So, the
Header-Name Received in line 3 has a Header-Value that spans lines 3 and
4. "
http://www.visualware.com/whitepapers/tutorials/email.html#headers
With Netscape's newsreader, it's a lot easier,select "view" then "full
headers".
Form the headers, you'll find lots of useful information. Often, you'll
find the nntp posting host address listed as a four section number like
127.0.0.1: do a traceroute to find the spammers upstream, and then email
the complait to their abuse desk. Usually that's
ab...@hostname.extension. Repeat the process for the site host if there
is one. Note that the "Received" header isn't always where the spam
originates; in the above example, you'll see that
"tes1a623.OneMail.com.sg " originates from "3: Received: from drb.com
(IIM1608 [203.127.89.138]) by tes1a623.OneMail.com.sg with SMTP
(Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0)"
I use sam spade for windows to expidite the process... they have online
tools, as well at http://www.samspade.org (down at the moment, sorry)
http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ is probably -the- source for info on
fighting spam...
Next spam in the group I'll post details for, if there's interest.
toadmonkey
granite...
>
>Next spam in the group I'll post details for, if there's interest.
>
Carl
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