SPAM from Microsoft
From: anonymous (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/17/03
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:53:48 -0800
Hate to say this but you have wasted your time.
Not sure about your "webmail" but yahoo and iwon mail
tools lets you see the entire headers. IP's and
addresses and even names if supplied (tho not in spams)
Reason time wasted: there are about 20-30 of these spams
sent to each email address daily. there are about a
million++ email addresses out there. "you are grain of
sand on the beach"...find something else to do..!!!!!
best advice....just delete the messages or set mail tool
to block/delete them. yahoo just installed a spam button
few weeks ago and after pressing it on 10 spams i have
not seen another one since. i only use iwon for friends
and trusted sites (citibank - komando.com - microsoft -
ebay - paypal).
good luck................
>-----Original Message-----
>I started this thread a while back, and have since taken
all your advice,
>and have been using Abouncer to send abuse notices to
the ISP's of the
>senders.
>
>At first I was only doing this for e-mail received into
my ordinary mail
>account i.e. not web-based. These were not the bogus
Microsoft e-mails, as
>I was only getting these in my web-mail account.
>
>I could not find a way to view the full headers in my
web-mail account,
>but after a while, I thought of the idea of forwarding
these web-mails to
>my ordinary e-mail account.
>
>This seemed to allow me to view the headers. However,
last week I raised a
>query with my web-mail ISP, asking whether it was
possible to view the
>headers.
>
>Their reply was as follows;
>
>Dear Customer,
>You cannot see fullheader details from Webmail,but even
if you were this
>would not help you identify the sender. Most of the time
these e-mails are
>sent in such a way as to disguise the proper sender, and
the way the virus
>works accomplishes this.
>The issue you mention is affecting many people and there
is nothing you
>can do apart from delete them.
>Regards,
>Martin Cundell
>
>I'm now concerned that I may be wasting my time trying
to bounce these
>e-mails, given that he says "this would not help you
identify the sender"
>
>Am I wasting my time? I'm starting to think that,
ultimately, the only
>answer is to close the account. Thing is, I really
wanted to try "to beat
>the baddies", if you see what I mean.
>
>
>.
>
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