ot spam

[Michael Havens]

the email has chaged. it is now: spam at uce.gov.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 at 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 at ftc.gov and send spam to uce at ftc.gov
> because that would mean that when the spam went to uce at ftc.gov the FTC
> could really nail them for harvesting the address uce at ftc.gov and sending
> spam to uce at ftc.gov.
> P.S. —>>uce at 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 <michael at butash.net>
> 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~(-:
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