Complain to ISP's Hosting Email Dropboxes
A favourite trick of spammers is to send their Spam out from a throwaway account on one ISP. This Spam directs recipients to respond to an E-mail account which is hosted on another ISP. Hosting these drop-boxes (or web sites) is considered by the community to be providing a Spam support service. Spammers cannot be allowed to profit from their Spam, even if they get tossed from their dial account.
Most responsible ISPs now forbid their customers from sending Spam by any means. If you find an E-mail address in the body of a Spam use traceroute and and whois for Domain Names to find the contacts for the ISP or free E-mail provider hosting the drop box.
Forward the entire Spam, including all of the headers, to the contact addresses for the ISP, along with a brief message along the lines of:
To: abuse@ispdomain.net,additional_addresses From: your_address Subject: Spam - [subject line of forwarded message] Attention isp_name, I have received the following Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, or Spam. I have never subscribed to a mailing list or asked for E-mail solicitations from this sender. This message solicits me to respond to the E-mail address: drop_box_address_here I believe you provide E-mail service for this address. Hopefully, your Acceptable Use Policy forbids the sending of Spam and the advertising of E-mail addresses or other resources on your network. Please terminate E-mail service to this address as soon as possible to prevent the spammer profiting from their actions. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. --- > forwarded Spam > ...
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