E-mail Scam, Addressess being collected of mailing list ::
Advice Requested
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sereciya at kurdistan.ath.cx
Sun Apr 13 10:20:49 PDT 2003
Hello,
> > What further action can be taken?
>
> There are many things you can do. You may not want to do all of them.
> 1) Install Spamassassin or similar
> 2) Continue to report and complain about junk mail (another good place to go
> is spamcop.net ... makes reporting junkmail very easy)
> 3) Contact your local government representative and complain loudly
> 4) Configure your mail server to use RBL, or sign up with a mail service
> that
> does.
> 5) I had an idea for a "counter-scam" where I would get an email address for
> my underage nephew. I would set up his signature to clearly announce his
> status as being underage ("I'm only 14 and I love FreeBSD" or something)
> and assist him in posting to mailing lists. Then I'd wait for some porn
> site to spam him and sue them for everything I could get. Any lawyers
> out there that think this would work?
>
> > All advice is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
>
> I hope what I said is helpful.
Yes, very much so. I greatly appreciate your advice and experience;
I will be following up on the next number of actions, thank you ;)
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