I have developed
a email which I have been sending to Spammers which they
fear and makes them remove my email address from their lists
and makes them stop sending their SPAM. Click
here to view the email
To make this
work, you must send this email directly to the Spammer.
If you received a 419 SCAM letter, you can easily find their
return email addresses in the message. Click
here and you will see that the Spammer used 2 email
addresses; barrjohnwillr15@earthlink.net
and barr_johwilliams3@yahoo.com.hk
.
I usually use a
free disposable email address at lycos.com to send my Stop
Spam message. I also hide my IP address when ever
sending a spammer a message and I recommend that you do the
same. If you do no hide your IP and you send them a
message, they will have your IP address and they may use it
to send Spam, and if they do, you may get blamed for it. So
use be sure to use a Free Anonymous Surfing browser like http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/anonymous.shtml
or http://www.the-cloak.com
when sending any messages to a spammer.
You
CAN Sue Spammers
Despite what you
may have heard regarding the new CAN-SPAM law which only
allows ISP's to Sue Spammers, there is a loop hole which
allows anyone to file suite. Here's the law chapter
& verse;
United States Code Title 47, Section 227(a)(2)(B)
states that a computer, modem, and/or printer meets the definition of a telephone fax machine. Section 227(b)(1)(C) states that it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. Section 227(b)(3)(C) states that a violation of the aforementioned Section is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for each violation.
SpamCop determines the origin of unwanted email and reports
it to the relevant ISP's (Internet Service Providers). It
shows the e-mail addresses so you can forward the spam
yourself to the appropriate parties by copy & pasting
the addresses in the "TO" window of your
e-mail program.
File complaints
to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by forwarding
the Spam you received to uce@ftc.gov
and spam@uce.gov
File complaints
to your State Attorney General's Office if they have
anti spam laws and fines for spamming. To find out,
visit your state's Attorney General's web site or call your
state's Attorney General's office and ask. In
Florida, you can file your complaint online here http://myfloridalegal.com/SpamEnfo.nsf/Complaint
Where
to Report Child Pornography Web Sites & Spam
To
report child pornography SPAM, Web Sites and/or sexual
exploitation of children, please contact your Crimes Against
Children Coordinator at your local FBI
Field Office
or link to the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children's CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.com.
The CyberTipline allows parents and children to file a
report by submitting an online form.
This form is then
reviewed by analysts and forwarded to law enforcement
including the FBI, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Postal
Inspection Service, and state and local police agencies.
For
additional information on Internet safety, please consult
the FBI brochure titled 'A
Parent's Guide to Internet Safety'
which is available online. You may obtain a hard copy of the
brochure by contacting a Crimes Against Children Coordinator
at your local FBI
Field Office.
Domain
Name Whois lookup
Spammers almost
always uses false contact info when registering their
domains names. To find out if their registration info
is false, use these
websites to the find name, address and phone number of owner
of websites, ISP's, & Hosting company responsible for
hosting the Web Site of the Spammer or Browser Hijacker.
Then forward a copy of the SPAM you received to the listed
Registrar, ISP, Hosting Company and FTC.
It's always a good idea to send an e-mail directly to the
registrar and complain about the false contact info and
internet abuse you encountered from their customer.
When you fill out the problem report, the name of the
registrar will be listed. You can go to their web site
and find their contact info. If it's not listed on
their web site, do a "whois lookup" at
http://www.completewhois.com/ and send your
complaint to the e-mail address listed in the contact
info.
Responsible
registrars should take immediate action, including
TERMINATING or freezing the domain name if the domain name
owner fails to correctly update his contact info.
Remember, you SHOULD be able to contact the owner of a
domain name. If the info is false / bogus, it's a
ICANN violation which is grounds for termination of the
domain name. "the
provision of false Whois information can be grounds for
cancellation of your domain name registration".
Visit ICANN's web site at http://www.icann.org/registrars/wdrp.htm
for complete information on this.
Report
Registrars Who Fail To Take Action
I've filed many
complaints to registrars and many take action including
freezing the domain name so it's no longer visible on the
internet or terminating the domain. Godaddy.com
has been very responsible about taking action against
internet & spam abusers who are using their registration
services.
This link will
take you to ICANN's web site and details ICANN's rules
regarding inaccurate whois contact info and the registrars
responsibility to get it corrected or terminate the
registrants domain name; http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03apr03.htm
.
Click here to see a letter written to Network Solutions
by ICANN when they (Network Solutions) failed to take
appropriate action.
The worst
registrar I've encounter is YESNIC.COM (see Internet Abusers
Hit List), a company based in Korea, who after I've filed
numerous complaints about several spammers with false
contact info, has taken NO ACTION and who has never replied
or acknowledged any of my e-mails. I have filed
complaints to ICANN about this registrar who is NOT
enforcing ICANN's regulations and asked that ICANN revoke
their status as a registrar. Hopefully, If
enough complaints are filed against this registrar, ICANN
will take some kind of action.
Before filing a
complaint, you should give the registrar at least 4 weeks to
update the false or missing info, or terminate the domain
name. Here's the link to file complaints
to ICANN about registrars who fail to make their customers
update their contact info. http://reports.internic.net/cgi/registrars/problem-report.cgi
Be sure to
create a folder called "Spam" and keep copies of
the all Spam you receive as evidence. To really
put the pressure on Spammers and Internet Abuse, report
every incident of Spam or Internet Abuse you are subjected
to. Don't let them get away with ANY abuse.
Keep copies of
all e-mail you send to ISP's, Hosting Companies, Registrars
and Spammers. These will be needed as evidence if
legal action is taken.
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