Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Hi Ien, > Here is a question for all you net-savvy folk: > > I am used to getting tons of canned meat' especially > to the domain name email. ien is on my > business cards or I would have ditched it years ago. > > But recently I started getting emails that show my > regular address has been used to send other people's > Sp@m. > > This really upsets me. Is there anything one can do > about it? > > Ien in the Kootenays > http://profiles./free_green_living Not easily .. there are things we can do but its shooting at a moving target because these cats change their email addresses often .. and they have lots of them .. many are not even legit .. and they are off shore. What is happening to you is happening to many folks .. I get the same crap often. Worse yet is the bastards send me Spam using my own email address .. thus, I can't Black List or bounce them. I have read a few articles about this Spam business .. in some cases its purty danged lucrative. Who would think folks would buy from folks who harass them and send false subject lines, etc? But folks do buy .. and the Spammers are sending MILLIONS of emails at the touch of a button .. and if maybe 1/10th of 1% of them result in a sale .. they can become wealthy. There are cases where these cats have been busted who made millions of bucks in a year. Maybe P.T. Barnum was right about the number of fools out and about. And come to think on it a bit .. we wouldn't have telephone spammers if folks refused to buy from them .. or even drug peddlers if we didn't have users. ;-) Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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