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How to sent email without my return address
I want to send an email back to a spammer (actually a response to a fraud email) and I don't want to identify myself.
Is this possible? How can I do it... jc |
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How to sent email without my return address
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:04:50 -0700, jbclem wrote:
I want to send an email back to a spammer (actually a response to a fraud email) and I don't want to identify myself. Is this possible? How can I do it... It is, but what makes you think that you will be communicating with the spammer? He has already done what you might do; forge some unfortunate soul's email address. So your response will go to an innocent victim of forgery, and your IP address will still be visible to the recipient (unless you are as low as the spammer, and using "peas"). Report it to Spamcop.net and forget it, or delete it and forget it. -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys. |
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How to sent email without my return address
This was email asking for bank information, that kind of thing. I think one way to fight back it to send false
information and force these people to waste time with it. What's a "peas", haven't heard of that before. "N. Miller" wrote in message ... On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:04:50 -0700, jbclem wrote: I want to send an email back to a spammer (actually a response to a fraud email) and I don't want to identify myself. Is this possible? How can I do it... It is, but what makes you think that you will be communicating with the spammer? He has already done what you might do; forge some unfortunate soul's email address. So your response will go to an innocent victim of forgery, and your IP address will still be visible to the recipient (unless you are as low as the spammer, and using "peas"). Report it to Spamcop.net and forget it, or delete it and forget it. -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys. |
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How to sent email without my return address
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:55:43 -0700, jbclem wrote:
"N. Miller" wrote in message ... On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:04:50 -0700, jbclem wrote: I want to send an email back to a spammer (actually a response to a fraud email) and I don't want to identify myself. Is this possible? How can I do it... It is, but what makes you think that you will be communicating with the spammer? He has already done what you might do; forge some unfortunate soul's email address. So your response will go to an innocent victim of forgery, and your IP address will still be visible to the recipient (unless you are as low as the spammer, and using "peas"). Report it to Spamcop.net and forget it, or delete it and forget it. This was email asking for bank information, that kind of thing. I think one way to fight back it to send false information and force these people to waste time with it. This is called a, "phishing" spam. "Phishes" normally do not require an email contact; they included a web page link. Typically made, through HTML trickery, to look like the link goes to the victim's banking web site, but actually going to some offshore site, instead. If you want to risk catching malware from that site, just follow the links in the email body. I have done that, in the past, and given information leading back to local DAs, or the state AG. I don't waste my time with it, any more. I just report it through Spamcop.net. What's a "peas", haven't heard of that before. Spammerspeak for "proxies", from the first letter. Open proxies (aka, "peass") on compromised computers, belonging to the customers of residential ISPs, are the most common vector for spewing spam to the Internet. -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys. |
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