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[SC-Help] Re: Spam as pictures

Joël Balazuc jbalazuc at free.fr
Sat Mar 11 11:22:18 EST 2006


Hello
Forwarding myself the spam is a bad process because the "abuse", usually 
the same organization as the spamer,  punishes the plaintiff and not the 
faulty. I suffered that with AOL (all  my mails to AOL domain are now 
discarded) and  now for this  reason I use Spamcop.

die spammer wrote:

> yep, forward the spam to spamcop then get abuse email address when the 
> report comes back. Dont "send" the report but use the abuse email 
> address and manually forward the spam using the abuse email address...
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> Chris Wright wrote:
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>> Joël Balazuc wrote:
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>>> Hello Mr Spamcop.
>>

>>> The new process of pollution by spam consists to send  pictures (JPG 
>>> files).  Forwarded  to Spamcop as body in a spam report , this 
>>> pictures are not analysed (ie  OCRed)  and the true spammer is not 
>>> reported as an abuser.  Any solution ?
>>> I apologize as a french speaking newbie.
>>> Joel
>>>
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>> my 0.02p  (Or Euro in your case)
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>> Maybe not the contents of the pictures are scanned, but 9/10, that is 
>> just the site being spamvertised.
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>> The real info is in the header information which is parsed by SPAMCOP 
>> and does go towards tracking and stats etc.
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>> If it lists a site in the image, you could always do a manual lookup 
>> and abuse address for that site to the reports.
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>> Regards
>>
>> Chris
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-- 
Joël Balazuc

PS : Ne jamais m'envoyer de courrier en copie cachée : à ma demande, il sera rebuté par mon fournisseur d'accès car considéré comme du spam.



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