Re: how do I stop a spammer or at least get my isp to listen to me?
From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 05/07/05
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Date: 7 May 2005 15:11:03 -0500
On Sat, 07 May 2005 10:57:12 -0600, Bruce Chambers <bchambers@h0tmail.c0m>
wrote:
>Rich wrote:
>> I know GetViagraNow.Com is one of the biggest spam clearing houses on the
>> net. I have tried to block their unsolicited junk for about 8 months now. I
>> don't know if it is related but I have had more virus attacks on my computer
>> since their junk email has come in. It feels like it is coming from them. I
>> have tried getting my isp to block them but Bellsouth.net has been no help
>> at all, for the past months they have been sending me around in circles
>> saying send us email-no call tech support-then you call tech support and
>> they tell you to email them with the problem. I have sent them emails of the
>> spam I am getting and after the first couple of times, they blocked me from
>> emailing tech support. Bunch of great guys. You would think they would care
>> because obviously these spammers are sending mail to all of bellsouth's
>> customers, but it is like they don't care or they are in it with the
>> spammers.
>> In despiration I even contacted the offender-GetViagraNow.com at their site
>> through their communications system but they didn't respond and there has
>> been no change. I still get 30 of the exact same email every day.
>> Anybody know how to block them?
>> Appreciate any help.
>> RichMason101(at)hotmail
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>
> While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
>commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
>minimize it's impact:
>
>1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
>forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
>been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
>addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
>so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
>example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
>address, for example: "name@NOSPAMisp.com."
>
>2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
>"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
>the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
>not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
>place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
>he/she has a valid, marketable email address.
>
>3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
>services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
>require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
>service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
>income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
>subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
>additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
>motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
>true," it's most likely a scam.)
>
>4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
>originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
>shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
>such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).
>
>4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
>utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
>server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
>from them will be automatically deleted from the server.
>
>5) Within Outlook Express or whatever other email client application
>you use, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders list, so the their
>messages are automatically deleted from the server without being
>downloaded to your PC.
3A) I have instructed my friends and family: "If someone asks you to enter the
names, email addresses, and birthdays of your friends into an online birthday
reminder database (yes this really is happening), please forget that I'm your
friend.".
hxxx://www.BirthdayAlarm.com/
4a) Please do not configure MailWasher, or any other mail filtering program, to
bounce mail back to the sender, with the intention of fooling them into thinking
that your address is no longer in use. This feature still is advertised for MW,
even though numerous folks have advised them to drop it.
(From <http://www.mailwasher.net>):
Of course it doesn't stop there, you have your own blacklist where you can add
people's email addresses who you never want to hear from again (you can even
bounce back emails so it looks like your address is no longer in use!).
Any spammer that receives your bounce will know the difference between an NDR
(returned by your MTA at time of email being sent) and a bounce (attempted by
your email filtering program, after the spam hit your Inbox). The only result
possible will be your address being confirmed as valid, as in #2 above.
Most spam is sent with forged From addresses anyway, and your bounce will likely
end up in the Inbox of another spam victim like you.
-- Cheers, Chuck http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/ Paranoia is not necessarily a bad thing - it comes from experience. My email is AT DOT actual address pchuck sonic net.
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