Wednesday, November 23, 2005

H(a)unting the Spammer

Today I was feeling like hunting down some spammers again... ITs a delight to do it. Especially when the spammer is silly enough to have a non-asian host and domain registrant. This way I can get all the abuse emails I want. Amateur spammers are easy to track down and report, the big problem are the professional ones. Another problem I come across often when reporting spammers to their isp and registrants, some registrants (including a german one specifically) just dont care about spamming. They ignore spam complains and keep on offering spammers the freedom to carry out their illegal activities. I wonder if we can report the registrants themself, when they dont take the necessary actions. (?)

Anyway, I have a good feeling about todays ha(u)nting. Sometimes its fun to send the spammer an email and threaten them but... today I thought it will be more fun when their host just shuts down their account. Hehehehehe... I am mean I know. But if you consider the tons of spam we receive, the violation of our privacy, the violation of the laws that take place, and the millions of dollars that these spammers earn in an illegal way, then you are bound to have a thing for them. :))

I have started to make a comprehensive guide about tracking and reporting spammers but I have a problem with the email program, its in german... err and I need it in greek or english. Maybe I should consider installing the english office but oh! I have a greek office in my old pc, I can make screeshots there. Great.

1 comment:

Indeterminacy said...

I would love to go after spammers. Tell me how!

I received one spam comment that stood as a work of art in relation to the story. (Page down to the last comments).