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| 142677 | 2003-05-09 07:29:00 | I am constantly getting email from the following turkey, Usman Khan [usmankhancan@hotmail.com]. It is always accompanied by an attachment. I have just received another one, this time with a virus which was caught by my Norton AV. Is there anything I can do with this email address apart from consigning it to the junk mail or shooting the sender!!! |
veterannz (960) | ||
| 142678 | 2003-05-09 07:52:00 | My advise is to only open emails from people you know, or people you know you have sent your email addy to. All the other ones are usually spam, and you don't really have to be an Einstein to know whats spam, by reading the most descriptive subject lines. Easy answer. Delete! |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 142679 | 2003-05-09 08:07:00 | If this Spam is coming throw a POP mail account then get Mailwasher( http://www.mailwasher.net) :) Then you can bounce that e-mail back & delete it on the server before you even download it. Note: the correct version Mail Washer (2.0.40) only let you have one(1) email account & no Hotmail :( unless you pay, But I have a older version’s (on my hdd) e.g. 2.0.28 which allows you to have more then one e-mail account & Hotmail. I will post a link to where you can download that version latter on… |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 142680 | 2003-05-10 02:27:00 | The easiest way to do this would be to block him from contacting you - Just tell your email client to mark emails originating from usmankancan@hotmail.com into your Junk Mail or to delete them immediately. That would be the easiest way and wouldn't alert him to the fact that you are bouncing his emails. The problem with bouncing emails with MailWasher is should he receive an email from MailWasher saying that the address no longer exists, he'll just keep on hounding, as he already know's it exists - otherwise they would've started bouncing back long ago CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 142681 | 2003-05-10 02:34:00 | A complaint to abuse@hotmail.com might stop the sender from using that name. Bouncing it just adds to the congestion on the Internet. It doesn't bother a spammer. It's best just to dump the stuff unread. Or if you can lock out that name@address, do that. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 142682 | 2003-05-10 03:22:00 | First of all remember that the email might not have come from that address. I have the email account piracy@hotmail.com and in that account I get these messages from "mailer-daemon" alerting me that the messages I apparently sent have not got through. The problem being that I never sent a message in the first place. Someone else is sending them and making them appear as if they're coming from my email address. Also an email address to abuse@hotmail.com might not do the trick seeing as they were stupid enough to let me register piracy@hotmail.com which does get some rather interesting emails at times. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 142683 | 2003-05-10 03:48:00 | People don't register the names . Computers do . Computers are stupid . (But they have an excuse . . . people programme them) . But vigilante revenge on spammers doesn't work . The only thing which would stop it is extermination of people who make it worthwhile . There are enough greedy idiots around for Nigerian scams to work profitably . There are enough people who vote for politicians to not become extinct . </rant> :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
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