Saturday, December 27
The Dren answers e-mail...
Just when I thought that there was no one reading this page!
From : WebMaster
Sent : Friday, December 26, 2003 11:23 PM
To :
Subject : The Angry Man
Dear Friend:
Can you help me catch this spammer? for example his real address or real number,
we want to kill him, the budget is $500,000
you know what? he use our name to spam, a lot of naive person thought the spamming is from us,
he use XXX@localstreet.com or xxx@localstreets.com as "from email"
George
The Dren Replies:
Dear George,
Getting Spammers is a pain in the ass. It takes some investigation. First, you need an e-mail program that will let you look at the headers. Actually, most will, you just have to hunt around for a "show headers" option. Now, headers can also be forged, but they are still a good place to start.
Next step, look for the advertised domain. For example, all my recent spam has been coming from .biz locations. If you go to Network Solutions and do a "whois" lookup, sometimes you can get a good idea of who is spamming you. The e-mail in the Whois sometimes is valid, so send them a warning. Next, find out who thier registrar is and send them a nasty gram as well. Sometimes it will get you somewhere, sometimes not, but at least you have done something.
For example, people from Japan and Indonesia are still trying to make my penis larger, however the companies listed in my 12/17 post as scumbag spamming companies seem to have stopped spamming me. So I'm about 50/50 this month.
Another good trick is to block a domain, kinda like the worst ISP was doing. Figure out who is hosting the products advertised, and block their IP range completely in any routers you have so that both outbound and inbound traffice does not make it for them.
This won't end all your Spammer problems, but it can help. Also, check out folks like Spamhaus, they have pretty good resources too.
-The Dren
From : WebMaster
Sent : Friday, December 26, 2003 11:23 PM
To :
Subject : The Angry Man
Dear Friend:
Can you help me catch this spammer? for example his real address or real number,
we want to kill him, the budget is $500,000
you know what? he use our name to spam, a lot of naive person thought the spamming is from us,
he use XXX@localstreet.com or xxx@localstreets.com as "from email"
George
The Dren Replies:
Dear George,
Getting Spammers is a pain in the ass. It takes some investigation. First, you need an e-mail program that will let you look at the headers. Actually, most will, you just have to hunt around for a "show headers" option. Now, headers can also be forged, but they are still a good place to start.
Next step, look for the advertised domain. For example, all my recent spam has been coming from .biz locations. If you go to Network Solutions and do a "whois" lookup, sometimes you can get a good idea of who is spamming you. The e-mail in the Whois sometimes is valid, so send them a warning. Next, find out who thier registrar is and send them a nasty gram as well. Sometimes it will get you somewhere, sometimes not, but at least you have done something.
For example, people from Japan and Indonesia are still trying to make my penis larger, however the companies listed in my 12/17 post as scumbag spamming companies seem to have stopped spamming me. So I'm about 50/50 this month.
Another good trick is to block a domain, kinda like the worst ISP was doing. Figure out who is hosting the products advertised, and block their IP range completely in any routers you have so that both outbound and inbound traffice does not make it for them.
This won't end all your Spammer problems, but it can help. Also, check out folks like Spamhaus, they have pretty good resources too.
-The Dren
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