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You are here likely due to someone abusing your ad you posted to our GreyBruce.org. I have done as much in my power to stop it.. I am listing some ways below for you to fight back SPAM and unsolicitated emails. GreyBruce.org is a site for local residents of Grey County and Bruce County in Ontario, Canada, not for out of town business and scamming people. We must fight back! I suggest you at least forward (cc:) the spam to UCE@FTC.GOV so the spam gets included in the Consumer Sentinel law enforcement database. GreyBruce.org was not meant to be abused! The best way to deal with these "spammers" is to report them to the email provider they are using, for instance: if the advertisement or money begging came from GiveMeADollar@AOL.com, report the "spam" to abuse@aol.com (and forward the original email). If the email came from TransferFunds@Yahoo.com , then report the email (and forward the original email) to abuse@yahoo.com. See the pattern? You can also report the persons IP address (an identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network, every computer has a different one) to the abusers ISP (internet service provider). All (97%) ISPs in the world forbid their members to send spam, this can possibly result in the abuser to loose their internet access account and cause them grief if you report them. You can get the IP address of the abuser once he/she has emailed you from their email account (not through the form responder for your personal ad, it will show my IP from emails sent through my website) by viewing the properties of the email and then viewing the message source (also you may see the ISP domain here, ex: AOL.com), more info here. Easiest way to complain to a spammer's ISP is to use the services of a website called SpamCop.net. Find out who the ISP is for the user in the form below:. Also, many emailers use free email accounts to abuse the internet. Say their email is Spammer@FreeEmail.com, well goto www.FreeEmail.com and seek out their "Contact Us" link and report the abuse of their system and the abuser just may loose his/her email account! What's the point of spamming if they loose all their email accounts? If the abusers is using his own domain name and email system, you can do a domain lookup (form below this paragraph) and find out the owners information (address, telephone, etc, example) for reporting to your local (or the abusers local) Better Business Bureau (scams or spam). Also in this domain lookup, you will find out their NS (name server) domains (usually free Domain Name Services) where you can now look up that service domain info or goto their website and report the abuser, they just may loose their website! Even find out who sold them the domain and tell them about the abuse, they just may not be alowed to buy domains again! Forward your spam/scams to uce@ftc.gov (FTC is an agency of the U.S. government that is responsible for enforcing a variety of consumer protection laws) directly to the Federal Trade Commission so that they can continue to try to stop the spam before it gets to others. You can also file a report with the FTC through an online form regarding businesses and their ways of doing business here. The FBI has a FBI Tips and Public Leads online form which you can use to report scams, frauds, suspicious activity, or other types of crime Someone pretending to be you? Report Identity Theft to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Do not reply to the senders of these emails. Avoid emails that state they need your bank account to transfer large amounts of money, selling herbs and remedies, begging for money, stating they will visit if you send a bus ticket, etc. Go with your gut feelings! If an email seems weird, just ignore it or try to report it! BecauseGreyBruce.org is a big thorn in spammers' sides, they will often try to cause trouble by sending out spam which appears to be from one of our websites (listed at top right of this page), but which is actually not. Because most of an email can be forged (including who it is "from"), spammers can send email from addresses @GreyBruce.org in an attempt to discredit GreyBruce.org. I have had a few incidences where other local website owners have tried to ruin me (make me look bad). Fit of jealousy?
Reading Email Headers How to Interpret Email Headers IP/DNS Lookup List of general REPORT SPAM web sites Find who to report to using domain Antispam.ru Spam Cop is a web-based system that attempts to diagnose where an unwanted message came from and send off complaints.Reporting e-mail abuse or here DON'T EVER BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN SPAM! The reason that people spam is due to a few people actually buying into the schemes. They make money, like all advertisers, by convincing people to buy a product or service. If no one buys into these things, companies will quit paying spammers to advertise their products.
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I think my PC's been infected by a computer virus. What do I do? Analyze your PC security Online How to find the ISP for a specific IP address Spamming and Hacking Defined Composing our Email Complaint Finger, nslookup, whois, ssl, traceroute, ping and dig lookups |
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- Contact the sender. If there's a possibility that the email could be part of mutual correspondence -- a long-delayed response, for example, or a mailing list you forgot you subscribed to -- then you could ask the sender for a reminder of why you're getting the message. Learn more.
- Use their own tactics Reply using a disposable e-mail address, and play along (without revealing any personal information). The goal is to get them to reveal a bank account number or personal information (phone#, address, alternate emails, websites, etc). Make it a game... ...called Revenge.
- Find auto replying email accounts called remailers which is a automatically replying robot that you setup to send as many messages you want on a schedule from time person replies (just use the email address of such a account, example auto replier is poz@freeautobot.com and you can get a free account @ www.FreeAutoBot.com). Use this as address to use for return messages with anonymous emailer, when the person replies, he is automatically signed up to recieve your predetermined messages on the auto-reply bot.
- Find an anonymous emailer online and send them fake/anonymous emails. Make different emails that sound like you are going along with the scam/spam, each email coming from another fake email address (use ones that do not exist) you used in the anonymouse emailer. As they read their plys and try to contact you, this will waste their time and frustrate them.
- Report the spam to agencies that maintain statistics. Note that such agencies generally won't take any action to stop the spam, but will only note that the spam occurred, and compile statistics that may be useful in setting policy. Learn more.
- Report fraudulent or otherwise illegal content to appropriate authorities. While fraud per se is an issue separate from spam, unsolicited email often contains offers for illegal or fraudulent products. Learn more.
- Contact your own Internet Service Provider. This is unlikely to affect the amount of spam you receive: It's not *their* fault that their system was attacked from outside. However, a small number of ISPs want to know about spam attacks, either to learn how to protect their system, or to set policy. Read whatever response they send you: If they don't want you to forward your spam to them, don't forward future spams to them. Learn more.
- Contact the sender's Internet Service Provider(s). Virtually all ISPs in the world forbid their members to send spam: If your complaint is valid, there's a good chance the spammer will lose connectivity. Learn more.
- Demand restitution from the spammer. If you repeatedly receive spam from a single source, you have a right to demand repayment for the time and resources the spammer used. Learn more.
- Initiate legal action against the spammer. This should, of course, be a last resort, as legal action is troublesome and expensive. However, well-executed legal action may do more than get one spammer off your back: It may lower the amount of spam on the Internet in general. Learn more. *some of Recap information taken from www.spamcon.org
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