[Cialug] Slightly OT: SPAM selling a SPAM company.

[Matt Patterson]

According to http://www.govspot.com/ask/spam.htm you can send the mail to uce at ftc.gov.  
Though I'm not sure how much good that actually does.   The CAN-SPAM act is a joke.

That email has actually been going around for several months.   The URL always stays the same.  
So if you want to easily filter the message, just filter on the body containing the URL and you 
should be set.

Matt Patterson
matt at usrlocal.com

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 2:26:35 -0600 (CST), "Tim Wilson" <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
> I have my own domain name, and recently I received the same e-mail at
> addresses such as support, uucp, administrator, majordomo, postmaster,
> etc.  I've now received this e-mail at 12 different addresses, all of
> which are commonly used for other purposes (such as majordomo).  I
> don't use any of these addresses, I just happened to get them as part
> of my "catch-all" address.  The e-mail (opened safely in a text based
> client) contains the following:
> 
> easy...
> 
> email advertise like this to 8,000,000 people this week for free...
> 
> http://www.broadcastemailgroup.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> the above non commercial offer is directed at non commercial
> charities only.  push charity info on site for details. this offer is
> not a commercial service that is absolutely not at all available
> for sale or lease or trade of any kind.
> 
> This sounds like a SPAM company to me.  The e-mails do not include a
> way to remove addresses (I wouldn't anyway, but that's beside the
> point).  Isn't this a violation of the CAN-SPAM act?  Is there
> anything I can/should do?  The headers are not all the same, but the
> body is identical between the messages.
> 
> --
> Tim
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