[SpamCop-List] Re: someone using my address - what to do...

[J G]

On 6/29/2005 6:52 PM Mike Easter scribbled:

> J G wrote:
> 
>>Apparently someone picked up my email address and is sending out spam
>>with it.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you mean that a spam bounced to you because the bounce was
> misdirected to your address because it appeared in the From of the spam.
> Or perhaps you should describe what you mean.
> 
> 
>>Just started to report w/o munging yest and I think I got picked up.
> 
> 
> Reporting without mungeing isn't 'so bad' or likely to cause you any
> trouble.
> 
> 
>>How and where to present this and stop it, please.
> 
> 
> If you are concerned, it might be useful for you to describe your
> problem adequately.  If there is some particular piece of mail which you
> have received that concerns you, put it into the parser as if it were a
> spam and parse it.  When you get the tracking url, which appears like
> this:
> 
> Here is your TRACKING URL - it may be saved for future reference:
> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z780263143z51da3c6ab190183bbae4557c6a605b6ez
> 
> Copy that tracker, cancel the report, and past the tracker in here.
> 
> You can also 'pre-munge' any personal address if you need to.  A tracker
> for a cancelled report can be munged liberally.
> 
> 
>>If I do a parse and but don't send it yet, will the id # be in the
>>system for someone to access?
> 
> 
> If you do a parse, in the beginning the tracker like I have posted above
> is 'live' because it has been neither sent nor cancelled.  No one has
> received anything, but if you post the tracker, anyone can click 'send'.
> You shouldn't post live trackers.  If you parse a mail, even one which
> isn't a spam, you can copy its tracker, cancel the report, and paste the
> tracker here and then anyone can see the entire mail.
> 
> 
OK, Mike, I've been to the forum reading FAQs and it appears I am
getting misdirected bounces due to someone using my email addy.
I'll try the report sys for an ID# and post it - soon as I munge the addy...
tnx
jg