posted on August 3, 2002 10:05:41 AM
When I tried to send this to SPAM Punisher, it said "there's no e-mail address." It came with the title, "Info Request!!"
It sounds like someone was requesting info regarding an eBay auction, but it is spam. Have spammers come up with a way to fool the SPAM Punisher? Anyone else get this?
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Subject: Info Request!!
posted on August 3, 2002 10:18:37 AM
I don't know which of the email addresses you used for the spampunisher, but if you look at the headers from a typical spammer there is usually a couple of emails addresses to try...
notice that the from and the reply-to is different...
Spammers also use anonymizers to send out emails so that it can't be traced back.
And the WORST thing you can do is to send an email back to the spammer himself saying, "remove me, scum" because then the spammer will know that you are a legit email address and sell your name to other spammers, too.
Just ignore it, like all of the rest. Don't give out your personal email address when you sign up for something that seems like it could generate spam(use a hotmail acct just for that purpose).
posted on August 3, 2002 08:09:10 PM
I just looked at the site. It charges money to download some software. I use spamcop.net, a free spam fighting service.
