On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
I have sent some stuff to [email protected], but it is not a typical situation. The hacker sent to my friend's contact list a request to wire $. The return address was changed to hellerwalker53 at gmail dot com. The hacker also changed my friend's reply-to field to that same address. So for some time (maybe even now) that email address was functional. Since that email is a .gmail address I want google to shut it down. Maybe my message to them will work; maybe not.
Denis, How unfortunate.
I may try to send something to the address to see if it bounces. If not, is there some service which will fill his inbox?
I don't use gmail yet I wonder if there's a way for gmail users to filter spam at their end. If so, adding that address to a local filter would allow it to be rejected or just discarded. Over the past couple of weeks the amount of spam headed my way has picked up considerably. Perhaps that's because summer vacation for spammers is over. And much of that spam comes from a google IP address. I wonder if the percentage of e-mail traffic that's spam or malware is still about the 80% reported a few years ago. Good luck resolving this annoying issue. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
