On 12/14/2010 3:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: >> On 12/14/2010 2:38 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> Keith Roberts wrote: >>> <snip> >>>> Sorry for my lame email replies, (please excuse the pun), >>>> but I had problems with my email recently. >>>> >>>> I've just had to clear out ~6,000 SPAM messages from my new >>>> hosting providers web mail account :( >>>> >>> *sigh* >>> >>> I've been getting bounces, because some spambot appears to be forging my >>> address as a Reply-To, or maybe even as a From. I'm hoping for a bounce >>> from a legitimate ISP, with a tech support/abuse contact, so I can at >>> least see the full headers of the crap. >> One of my addresses is getting about 500 bounces per day from some >> Russian spammer forging the address. Quite annoying. This has been >> going on for ages now. Not much I can do about it. > I'd like to see the actual spam. For example, I just got an ordinary > spam... with a phone number in Utah to call. I'm seriously considering > doing something I've been thinking of for a while: finding out who the > number belongs to, and suing *them* under the CAN-SPAM act. I mean, the > spammers are being paid to send out that crap, and I bet a *lot* of it is > for people in the US scamming for $$$. > > I could hope that the spam being sent under the bounced notices is the same. Most of the bounces I get include the text from the spam, but they are in russian, so I have no idea what they are selling. Honestly, I don't even look at them anymore. I have a few rules that sort them off into a folder that I scan through occasionally just to check that nothing legitimate managed to get in there. -- Bowie