[plug] OT: Perth SPAM

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Andrew Francis wrote:
> I received some spam from a Perth company today. Does anyone have any
> ingenious ideas for revenge? (Aside from turning up at the advertised
> seminar and throwing processed meat at them...)
> 
> Copy of the email itself is at http://ii.net/~locust/spam.txt
> 
> --
> Andrew Francis
> locust at iinet.net.au

I too received that spam.

Forward the email, with the full headers, to abuse at iinet.net.au (they are
already aware - I have done this, requesting action by iinet), and, forward the
header (and, just the full header, with your complaint - yahoo bounces full spam
complaints), to abuse at yahoo.com.au.

Most ISP's, and, the free email providers, have an address abuse at ... , to deal
with spam complaints. The normal procedure, is to include the full message
header, so that the spam can be traced, as email address spoofing has been
used frequently in spam messages.

Whatever you do, don't respond to spam messages. Do not take any advice in a
spam message " If you do not want to receive similar messages, send a message
to<> ", or, "go to this web page". If you do that, you give them your specific
address, and, then you can expect the spam messages to increase exponentially.

--  
Bret Busby

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