[Gllug] how do i report spam?

[salsaman]

Alain Williams wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:27:53AM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
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>>Hi
>>We are getting huge quantities of spam attempts from a site in the States
>>which appears to an adsl connection through verizon.net
>>
>>They are all being blocked at smtp time  (upon receipt of mail from: <>)
>>so no real problem,  but they may well be a problem for others.
>>The emails purport to come from various 'bank' domains  (halifax.co.uk,
>>alliance-leicester.co.uk,  woolwich.co.uk) and presumambly contain a virus
>>or somesuch.
>>
>>Any suggestions as to how to get the ISP concerned to do something about it,
>>or would I just be wasting my time ?
>>    
>>
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>You *should* be able to write to postmaster at domain, but that won't help if it
>someone's home PC. Otherwise try postmaster at verizon.net - give some sample
>headers (including times) so that if it is DHCP they can track it down.
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Probably get better results reporting it to abuse at verizon.net.

abuse@<whatever.com> is the traditional address for spam reports.

Gabriel.

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