GeneralWhat is spam?Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message,in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send, most of the costs are paid by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender. There are two main types of spam.and they have different effects on Internet users.
ReportingMyMAIL can help you reporting spam.Automaticly:
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Response on reporting ?Most times there is no human response on the reports.A automatic response are in the most cases sent to you so it is a good idea to have a folder for these mails and then filter on "abuse" on Subject: and From:. How to find out the ISP...The spammer tries to hide the originator of the mail by not including the correct e-mail address and or hiding the server name.It is possible to trace the originator by the IP-address by using for example whois, traceroute, nslookup or webtools Sample 1 of a spam header: .. Received: from (gaia.tripnet.se) [195.100.21.7] by heron.tripnet.se with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19d6J9-0002uf-00 (Debian); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:48:19 +0200 Received: from (p50829739.dip.t-dialin.net) [80.130.151.57] by gaia.tripnet.se with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19d6Iu-0004c3-00 (Debian); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:48:07 +0200 From: rugilo@deliveryman.com .. This one has correct IP and Name, a serch with nslookup gives p50829739.dip.t-dialin.net abuse address is abuse@t-dialin.net Sample 2 of a spam header: .. Received: from (gaia.tripnet.se) [195.100.21.7] by heron.tripnet.se with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19cz4Y-000147-00 (Debian); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:04:46 +0200 Received: from (jdgxkxc) [218.5.6.222] by gaia.tripnet.se with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19cz4S-0006VK-00 (Debian); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:04:45 +0200 From: Jada To: Subject: Equal results just cheaper Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:08:51 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-Id: Status: .. This one has mismatching IP (218.5.6.222) and Name (jdgxkxc). A serach on http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl finds out that the spam comes from China (China net). abuse address is in this case abuse@fjdcb.fz.fj.cn More information/toolshttp://www.abuse.net/http://spam.abuse.net/faq/ http://spam.abuse.net/overview/ http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm |
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