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Yahoo refusing reports and nobody is at the abuse desks?
nobody at spamcop.net
nobody at spamcop.net
Fri Mar 5 04:32:11 EST 2004
I tried to report a spam scammer's Yahoo e-mail address and was told
that Yahoo doesn't accept reports to abuse at yahoo.com anymore. That's
not a surprise. Every time I've reported a spammer's box, the e-mail
address had to be near the top of the report or else Yahoo would send an
auto-reply claiming that there was nothing that could be done because
the spam didn't come from Yahoo. Putting the address before the spam
headers like SpamCop does got a reply about how Yahoo had taken
"appropriate action" against the account, but they wouldn't say what
action that was. Like the inept customer service department, there's
probably no one reading the reports. I got an account shut down with
only one fake report. Make an account and put the address into some
Yahoo message headers as the From address and Yahoo would delete the
account after receiving the spam report without checking the IP
addresses to make sure that the addresses were really the ones used for
spamming and not those of an Innocent Bystander. It looks like it's all
automatic and run by keyword-scanning software. If other abuse
departments work this way, it's not surprising that spammers are able to
stay on the same ISP for so long. Just set up one main account and a
second one for spamming. The ISP will only shut down the second
account, which is replaced within a few days and the spamming continues.
There's a big spammer that has been able to get my personal information
and is trying to sell me a second mortgage or a high interest rate on a
loan or some other stuff. The host is xo.com, which has given this
spammer at least 5 different Web site accounts that are still working
after many reports to this ISP. It looked like they shut down one
account and a new one was already up and being spamvertized within two
hours. Do any big abuse departments actually read spam reports and
investigate their clients?
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