SPAM
I have been relatively unaffected by spam, on my personal e-mail accounts. At least since I dumped AOL years ago. (Although to be fair, when they foolishly created a pubically searchable listing of every registered screenname on the AOL service in a bid to provide everyone a homepage on the nascient world-wide web, spam was more of a usenet problem than an e-mail problem.)
Anyway, since I have now received 4(!) spam e-mails within a week, I feel the need to take action. Oh, by the way, freelotto.com is the main spammer in this case. I had done everything in my power to get them blacklisted by RoadRunner a couple of years ago, and now they have gotten a hold of my main e-mail address. I guess I'll have to try to get them blacklisted by my other e-mail provider.
Here is a bit of software filtering I'm going to try. SpamPal
Meanwhile; I have put in complaints about freelotto.com with the FTC at spam@uce.gov, Tucows, Inc. their registrar, and with OmniTI their e-mail provider.
Should you wish to be proactive about the spam or UCE, all you need to do is look in the internet header information from the spam email (try right-clicking the email and selecting properties, and veiw source), look for the originator of the email, the first place that it came from. Then do a "whois" search. The whois information will tell you who you may choose to contact concerning that particular spam problem. (Remember be polite, they might actually be able to help!)
As an example, below is the whois information about freelotto.com from Tucows.
Anyway, since I have now received 4(!) spam e-mails within a week, I feel the need to take action. Oh, by the way, freelotto.com is the main spammer in this case. I had done everything in my power to get them blacklisted by RoadRunner a couple of years ago, and now they have gotten a hold of my main e-mail address. I guess I'll have to try to get them blacklisted by my other e-mail provider.
Here is a bit of software filtering I'm going to try. SpamPal
Meanwhile; I have put in complaints about freelotto.com with the FTC at spam@uce.gov, Tucows, Inc. their registrar, and with OmniTI their e-mail provider.
Should you wish to be proactive about the spam or UCE, all you need to do is look in the internet header information from the spam email (try right-clicking the email and selecting properties, and veiw source), look for the originator of the email, the first place that it came from. Then do a "whois" search. The whois information will tell you who you may choose to contact concerning that particular spam problem. (Remember be polite, they might actually be able to help!)
As an example, below is the whois information about freelotto.com from Tucows.
Whois info for, freelotto.com:
Registrant:
PlasmaNet, Inc
420 Lexington Ave
Suite 2025
New York, NY 10170
US
Domain name: FREELOTTO.COM
Administrative Contact:
Registrar, Domain domreg@freelotto.com
420 Lexington Ave
Suite 2025
New York, NY 10170
US
212-931-6760
Technical Contact:
Registration, Domain hostmaster@OMNITI.COM
10445 Rosemont Drive
Laurel, MD 20723
US
301 776 6376
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 31-Jul-2003.
Record expires on 04-Nov-2011.
Record created on 23-Oct-1996.
Domain servers in listed order:
UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET 204.69.234.1
UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET 204.74.101.1
Domain status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
posted by Bryan at 7:41 PM
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