Spam busting
Apr. 29th, 2003 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularI've decided to take a new tack on spam. Someone got hold of my addy and is starting to send out porn spam and marketing dren to my account.
The latest one left a telephone number to call, and I'm taking advantage of it - none of these automated systems where you give out your address and pray they're honest about removing it. No, I am going to try and get a person on the line. And pry out of them where they got my address. And a contact number for those people. And exact a promise to remove my addy from their list.
I'm gonna keep a record of this, I think. Notes as it happens. And I figure if I put it up here as it happens, it will create a nice paper trail.
Anyway.
The offender was identified as Mark, addy hqcwric627@hotmail.com - contact telephone (877) 284-8258, remove-me telephone (888) 529-1703.
Close entry.
The latest one left a telephone number to call, and I'm taking advantage of it - none of these automated systems where you give out your address and pray they're honest about removing it. No, I am going to try and get a person on the line. And pry out of them where they got my address. And a contact number for those people. And exact a promise to remove my addy from their list.
I'm gonna keep a record of this, I think. Notes as it happens. And I figure if I put it up here as it happens, it will create a nice paper trail.
Anyway.
The offender was identified as Mark, addy hqcwric627@hotmail.com - contact telephone (877) 284-8258, remove-me telephone (888) 529-1703.
Close entry.
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Date: 2003-04-29 10:10 am (UTC)I don't know about the return e-mail addy, though. You might want to view full headers and feed the originating IP through a WHOIS query (I use http://www.arin.net/whois ) to get the ISP or hostname it REALLY originated from. Most of these places have an abuse contact. I did that for a while until my old Hotmail account got so flooded with spam it wasn't worth it. But that did keep the deluge down a bit.
Hm. Good call - thanks.
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From: Mark < hqcwric627@hotmail.com >
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Subject: ADV: Website Submissions to Search Engines enshp
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And the arin.net WHOIS query kicked back Stuyvesant High School.
Guess it's time to make a phone call...