On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:33:28 EST, Doug said: > After examining the headers of many of the spam advertisments I get > and trying to contact the administrator of the network it came from I > find that it is usually futile because the network doesn't exist and > the IP information is incorrect. I also find that most use false > sender and reply address information (in an attempt to keep recipiants > from filtering them). This makes it hard (at least for me) to do > anything about them.
The trick here is to remember that except for the relative few spammers that
are advocating a religious/political/philosophical viewpoint (a la "Uncertainty
Principle is Untenable!"), the spammers *WANT* you to be able to contact them
via *some* means - they can't extract money (their usual goal) from you if
you can't get back to them.
Moreover, it has to be relatively simple to find - it has to be simple enough
that even a victim who doesn't have enough kloo to stop to wonder why the
"confidential and private" Nigerian scam arrived via spammage can figure out
how to get aboard....
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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