the email has chaged. it is now: spam@uce.gov. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > found it for all to see: > > 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 *love* your > spam. They have a refrigerator full of spam. > *(Psst.. Hey! Let us know if you like this article by leaving a comment > below!)* > > So forward your spam to uce@ftc.gov. 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 uce@ftc.gov and send spam to uce@ftc.gov > because that would mean that when the spam went to uce@ftc.gov the FTC > could really nail them for harvesting the address uce@ftc.gov and sending > spam to uce@ftc.gov. > P.S. —>>uce@ftc.gov< <---harvest here > > 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. > > 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. > > 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 *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.* > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Michael Butash > wrote: > >> Good question actually. >> >> 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). >> >> 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. >> >> -mb >> >> >> >> On 06/26/2015 07:03 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> I get spam w/o the unsubscribe link required by law. Who do I send it to >> to get them in trouble? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: