August 6, 2007
How To Combat Spammers?
Last week, my old boss jokingly asked me why I was selling pharmaceuticals on the internet. It seems he’s been getting emails from a “Brad Warbiany” (with rotating hotmail email addresses) trying to sell him medications to increase the size of his… confidence.
This appears to be one issue with having a unique name that is easily found on the internet that I hadn’t considered. I now have spammers using my name to peddle their wares. And frankly, that’s the last thing I need, especially if it’s widespread enough that someone who actually knows me is getting this spam.
But I don’t know what to do about it. I doubt I could find whoever is responsible, and even if I did, I doubt they’re in the USA. I’m not sure I have any recourse to stop these guys. About the only thing I can think of is to contact Microsoft/Hotmail and see if there’s anything they can do about it.
Any thoughts?
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I got a suggestion:
Get a better paying job, so you don’t have to sell male enhancement drugs on the side. I always knew you were a scheister.
THere is unfortunately no way to prevent spammers from spoofing your name or email address in their reply to fields.
I recieve thousands of “returned mail, message undeliverable” and “mail blocked because of spam” error messages, because spammers use my name and reply-to in their spam.
The real irritation is though, sometimes these anti-spam systems then decided to block all email from your address or domain; so if you have a legitimate email to send to someone using that mail service, they won’t receive it.