Re: MI Reporting spam fraud sasfd

[Colonel Erick Posner]

The proper website to report spam and fraud is the FTC website.
http://www.ftc.gov   

They regulate commerce.

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   Erick Posner

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and threw her off the boat.  That's how she learned how to swim.  I said,
'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' "
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RE: MI Reporting spam fraud

[Matt.Wilkie]

 I tried to find a law enforcement Web site with an email address to
 which I could forward it; but found none.  (You can't even report a
 murder on the Web, let alone this).

There is little law enforcement for the net because the net by 
it's very nature spans multiple jurisdictions and thus variant
rules and regulations. What is illegal in the US is not 
necessarily so in Canada or in Sweden or in Thailand.

That being said, there are things we can do. A very good place
to find information on how to fight back is http://spam.abuse.net/.
I will forewarn you that it can quickly get involved and time
consuming though.

If you want to do something about spam, but don't feel like
decoding headers and tracing upstream providers, a quick and
easy action is to forward all your spam mail (with complete 
headers) to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. See 
http://wwe.spamrecycle.com/ for more info on this program.

cheers,

-matt
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