Do you want to know where the spam you received came from, you can do that online here: http://www.mitm.nl/
Just cut and paste the e-mail header, and there we go!
Alas you only see the zombie computer the spam was sent from.
That you can do something with the info is a serious misconception: received headers in spam almost alwas are being falsified.
There are a dozen or so exemptions, together good for a small portion of all spam volume:
hacked servers
hacked user accounts (web mail, 419)
free mail providers (o.a. 419)
ISP mail servers (through hacked pc’s)
open mail servers
Only the last two categories could deliver workable received headers’ infolleen
headers op. But you must have the knowledge where to look for these special cases.
Enjoy the geo-location of the zombie you were spammed from,
Personally I couldn’t care less where the spam comes from, so long as mailwasher detects it and I delete it. I used to track down where spam came from long before these tools came out and reported many, but this really is time wasted IMHO. Life is to short, time to do something more enjoyable.
Personally I couldn't care less where the spam comes from, so long as mailwasher detects it and I delete it
you are right davidr my friend...just as long as my mailwasher pro filters out all the spam-crap i'm happy-and better things then to do guessing where or whom sent it-if i knew i wouldn't wanna know ??? ::)
thanks anyways damian-at least you care :o
It isn’t that I don’t care for Damian’s post, nothing could be further from the truth. It is simply time spent tracking down spam is seldom worth it.
An old Army saying is that ‘time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted’ true for tracking down vulnerabilities and weakness, etc., but unfortunately this isn’t true for tracking spam origins.
It isn't that I don't care for Damian's post, nothing could be further from the truth
feel the same..i valve his help and posts and everyone's else's :)
Marine saying "The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!" put in mailwasher pro in the marines place and it has the spam situation well in hand 8)
Fully agree. I’ll use my time blocking spam and not to discover the origin as I can’t do anything.
By the way, Gmail has a powerful spam trap and we receive almost nothing of spam.
There could be a solution for the spam-problem using the mailkey protocol: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rmeijer/mailkeys.pdf
The way the problem is tackled now with blacklists/ greylists/ whitelists is not doing anything, the mailkey protocol would make:
* Possesion of an e-mail address plus sub-adsress enables the holder to address the mailbox of the one that poseses the mailbox.
* A sub-address can be revoked.
* A sub-adres is non forgeable.
W We can only guess why the problem is not tackled by the roots?
Email is a wonderful thing. Messages get to their destination as fast as a phone call, without interupting the recipient. You can choose whether or not to read an email message, at a time that’s convenient. You can reply immediately or not. You can think about your reply, edit and check spelling, just like a snail mail letter. And email messages don’t cost extra for long distance, frequency, or high volume. You can transmit long passages, links, and photos. And you can send the same message to many people at once… now THERE’S where the problem starts. Advertisers took advantage of this feature, and email became SPAM.
I get a couple hundred junk email messages every day. Good thing i have mailwasher pro!!! I don’t bother even looking a them, but maybe I should take a look every now and then. Since spammers started using random word generators to get around filters, there are some pretty weird messages in circulation Thought for today: If it weren’t for spam, I’d have no mail at all! :
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Hi Dan! I have Thunderbird v2 installed on my new Toshiba Satellite L30 laptop, & it’s capable to view full headers of email 8), but with the help of speciall add-on called “Display mailing list header” ( current version I have is 0.3.2).
After installing it just sellect the email you want to view, then chose “Headers” → “All” from the View menu, & you will get them. 8)
Rostik.
Thought for today: If it weren’t for spam, I’d have no mail at all! :
oh and bob also 