[SC-Help] Re: Unstoppable picture spam.

[anon]

"Søren Jacob Lauritsen" <devnull at nospam.sjl.dk> wrote in message 
news:e4adq6$vdn$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Hello there!
>
> Four times a day since the end of April, I have been blessed with e-mails 
> containing text as pictures. I'm pretty sure they're from the same source. 
> They all share the same "look": Text on a colored background (light red or 
> light green). The contents of the text differs from time to time.
>

I think that the first thing you should do (not do) is about READING spams.

NEVER, NEVER, EVER *open* a spam - many spams 'phone home' to tell the 
spammer that he has a 'live one' and the address is a salable commodity and 
worth money to other spammers.

Also, never 'unsubscribe' to something you never subscribed to (same reason 
as above.)

If you MUST read the spam - either disconnect from the web before opening it 
to prevent communication. BUT realize that some spam may contain malicious 
code that nesses up your hard drive.

Alternate method of looking at spam - in outlook express right click on spam 
listed in mailbox, click on properties -> click on details tab -> click on 
message source button.

This will give you all the information about the spam (but does not decode 
base64 which looks like gibberish) - you can then see the complete headers 
and the (possible) html coding.

-- 
A SpamCop user and forum reader,
Not Admin



> Have anybody received these e-mails? The spammer seems to be unstoppable. 
> So any suggestions would be nice. It's the first time, I haven't been able 
> to stop them within a few days.
>
> Best regards,
> Søren
>
> -- 
> Remove nospam to write me! :-)