Category: Spammer

Fighting an endless battle!

Paul

Having been perusing my email inbox the last few days.  I’ve noticed that Gmail hasn’t been catching all the spam.  So I’ve deciding to write an How to fight spam the hard way.   Why write about something people know all about spam. It is the fact that we have come to be complacent and ignore the spam that comes from our inbox.

[ad]To think if we allow this spam to keep coming our way.  So I’ve figured I show you how to fight back with spam.  It won’t be an easy process but if you follow these few steps you too could get what you need done and make a wold difference with fighting spam.  Some people will say it can’t be done.  I’ve done it i n the past and I do it now.  So let’s start:

SamSpade.org is the first part of this epic adventure.  I say it’s the easiest part because it doesn’t take a lot of know how to find out the information you need. So let’s start with you get a spam message in your inbox and you want to report this spam to the proper people and make it harder for the spammers to get away with this.

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You would want to look for any domains in the email message such as a (dot)gov, (dot)com, (dot)us, ETC and do a look up with SamSpade.org and find out who to email.  It’s going to be one of the following:

  • Admin@(domain)

  • Postmaster@(domain)

  • abuse@(domain)

There are always going to be more, but you get the picture.  You then forward the message to either one or all of them and tell them in the email why you are emailing them.  I usually say something with TOS(Terms of Service).  That way you sound a little more forceful.  If you want to cut down on spam.  I dare you to report one peace of spam a day.  I can pretty much bet.  You will drop in spam in under a week.  On an upcoming article I will discuss why you would report spam.

Spammer sues Anti-Spammer and Wins!!

Paul

Anti-spam activists often need to do quite a bit of hunting to track down the real identity of various spammers. Over the years, spammers have become increasingly adept at hiding from those trying to shine light on their activities. However, when one well-known anti-spammer used some standard whois and DNS lookup tools (the same kind many of us use every day) to find out the identity of a spammer, the spammer sued him… and won! The anti-spammer has to pay over $60,000 in fines, and possibly much more once lawyers’ fees are added up. The judge ruled that some rather basic tools suddenly constituted “hacking” even though the details don’t suggest any actual hacking. The anti-spammer simply used the tools available to get the information necessary. He didn’t need to break through any security or do anything malicious to get the info. If you read the ruling, it sounds like a judge could define plenty of perfectly normal online activities as “hacking.” Update: There’s a good discussion in the comments, suggesting that there’s a lot more going on here than is clear from the article itself. The judge’s finding of facts suggest that the anti-spammer did some questionable things, including lying and ignoring an injunction — which certainly hurt his case. However, others are suggesting that the judge’s finding of facts are incorrect and there’s much more to this story that will come out on appeal.
[Via TechDirt]

Now this really boils my blood. I haven’t read the comments, but I will later on today. I don’t know what the judges are thinking these days? Do they even have internet access at home to even understand this process. I think this will turn out to be a big thing in the appeals court. I know I will be interested in the decision there.