[Gllug] What to do about spammer using my email as reply-to

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Feb 20 17:01:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:31:21PM +0000, Matthew wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I've rather worryingly started receiving failed delivery reports to my
> main email account for dodgy porn spam. The spammer is using my
> address in the reply-to :(

This happened to me.  I found the contact details for the website that
was being advertised (using whois) and told them I'd sue if they didn't
stop.  They stopped immediately.  I suppose they calculated that it was
so easy to switch to persecuting some other poor victim that they
needn't risk a lawsuit from me, however small that risk might actually
have been.

-- 
Bruce

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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