[CAUT] spam

[Jim Busby]

Hi Ron,

For years I have reported spam (especially scams) to spam.gov, as you have explained below, but have never seen any results from our government. Is there another address that I could use? And, how does one know if any action was taken, or if it is just a waste of time? Most don't have the abuse thing attached.

I'd gladly send the idiots away if I could. I get 5 or so a day.

Thanks.
Jim Busby BYU



-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Overs
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:24 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] spam

Hello all,

Unsolicited junk is the curse of the medium. I routinely report one
spammer/scammer per day to either our Australian authority which
deals with it, or the server of origin if they have an abuse@****
address.

For example, Gmail seems to be rotten with scammer accounts. You can
open the offending email, click the "blah, blah blah" button to
include the entire headers so that the server can identify the
scammer, then forward it to abuse at gmail.com.

They'll usually close the account.

If we all did one per day the scoundrels might well be hunted from the web.

Ron O.
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