<div dir="ltr">the email has chaged. it is now: <a href="mailto:spam@uce.gov" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">spam@uce.gov</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">found it for all to see:<div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;background:transparent">The first place to which you should complain is the Federal Trade Commission. They are the primary agency vested with enforcement of the new Federal CAN-SPAM anti-spam law. They want your spam. They <u>love</u> your spam. They have a refrigerator full of spam.</p><div style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;float:none;text-align:center;background:transparent"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><font color="red">(Psst.. Hey! Let us know if you like this article by leaving a comment below!)</font></b></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;background:transparent">So forward your spam to <a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a>. And in case you haven’t read all of our previous columns (and really, you should), let me remind you that address harvesting – the act of taking an email address from a web page such as, oh, say, this one, is illegal. But I’d sure like to see some spammer harvest the email address <a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a> and send spam to <a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a> because that would mean that when the spam went to <a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a> the FTC could really nail them for harvesting the address <a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a> and sending spam to <a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a>. <br>P.S. —>><a href="mailto:uce@ftc.gov" target="_blank">uce@ftc.gov</a>< <---harvest here</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;background:transparent">After sending your spam to the FTC, if you are feeling really motivated, you can read the fine print in the spam's header information to determine from where the spam really originated, and complain to the ISP who is hosting the spammer. That may get the spammer's Internet access turned off.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;background:transparent">Next, you can contact your State Attorney General's office to find out with whom you can file a complaint at your state level, because CAN-SPAM allows State Attorney Generals to sue spammers who violate CAN-SPAM. In fact, your ISP can sue them too.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;background:transparent">Finally, once you have done some or all of these things, delete the spam, and be grateful for small favours - such as the fact that the spam did not contain a <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">bogus unsubscribe link, which when you clicked it, rather than unsubscribing you, alerted the spammer to the fact that they had a warm body at the other end of the line.</b></p><div><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><br></b></div><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;background:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana;line-height:17px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"></span></b></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Good question actually.<br>
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I get some idiot recruiter spam (a car dealership and realtor too
come to mind) that a few times have tried to use their unsubscribe
form, and found it broken, which I half suspect on purpose (or
they had a windoze developer code it and only works in ie). <br>
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Either way an annoyance I can't remove myself from, which I take
as a violation. I've love to "give them a referral" for their
efforts in annoying me.<br>
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