Okay, I just got spammed from someone in china, spamming about Opt-In-Pays.com, now if you have this person in your downline, or know they are in your downline and they have referals, then sorry, but you might be loosing them from your downline. I reported them to Opt-In for the spam they sent me.

Their Referal link number is: 37162
They spammed me using a yahoo email addy, whether it's their's or not I dont know, but this is the start of it: sisensi.
They used the name, possibly fake due to spam coming from CN IP.: Walter Thompson.

Go get him.

I'm being spammed constantly...

I get it in Chinese writing.
They want me to enhance my bust, participate in gold invest programs, and even grow my penis larger. (last I checked, I didn't have one of those )

All I can do is block them ... don't know how else to stop it.

unfortunately, you can't stop them, and if you try to click on their "unsubscribe" button, that just confirms they found a valid email address (to sell or worse). as for blocking, i have been receiving spam emails about where to buy drugs or whatever i wanted. i was going to report them to their ISP, but found that they were "borrowing" email addys from legit companies for the purpose of spamming, and would use a different @... each time, so that would have been a waste of my effort as well.

best thing to do is just be liberal with your 'delete' button

First rule of identifying the source of SPAM/UCE. Do NOT work off the FROM: email addy.

open a free reporting account with spamcop.net.

Report them through there copying the whole email, headers and all. You can do this in Outlook Express by clicking rightmouse on the email and hitting properties, then message source button. 99% of spam comes through proxy/relays.

Also, if you use OE, you can block them using the subject through your message rules.

If you use OE, always make sure that you have it set to view all emails in text format, found in your options under the read tab. Reason I say this is that some emails use the src tags to report back that the email addy is true.


I hope this helps people in this side of things.


Oh, and his accounts been closed

thanks, that is so helpful. my ISP is useless in such matters, and your advice is terrific.

thanks again.

ISP's are hopeless when it somes to spam from other sources other than themselves, even then some turn a blind eye when it's their own.

Another question about spam, since we're on the subject......

How long does it take spam cop to stop the offender? I have submitted the same address time and time again, but I still keep getting the same spam.

I get the full headers, so I know I'm submitting everything.....

Anyone know??

If you want a good little program that will bounce the emails while they
are still on the server so you dont have to download anything check out
this below, I wouldn't be without it and its free

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Spamcop doesnt stop them, it's upto the ISP to do so. Unfortuantly with a lot of spam it gets bounced through relays and proxies within China and China is hopeless when it comes to stopping spammers, as are most asian countries due to the lack of understanding of English. Then you have ones that do understand english and dont give a ######.

NOT a solution..

Why not, all it's doing is bouncing it back to the reply-to: or From: email addies.

That in itself is spamming, why, because the person's email address within that is fake or some innocent person who is being joejobbed...

Also, if the email address it bounces to is actually invalid, then your ISP receives the message from the host it was sent to. Therefore clogging up their inboxes with rubbish. They can then charge you the user for using such a program since it causes unwanted trouble.

Just be careful though...spammers don't use their real email addys. It's easy to "borrow" someone else's email addy and send it that way...go to any good active hacker script-kiddy forum and there are a bunch of sites to go to where you can do that or you can just get a mailbombing program and place whatever email you want to show up in the "From" field. People who played no part in the spamming could get in trouble.