-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.SOL.3.96.970522041838.26834D-100000@sirius.infonex.com>, on 05/22/97 at 05:27 AM, Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com> said:
Spam is interfering with the *real* victim's (the sendmail operator's) ability to provide customer service; in a very real and fiscally damaging way.
It's worse than that; some asshole has just sent out a spam with a forged return address at $$$$@unicorn.com. There is absolutely nothing I can do to stop people sending such forgeries, yet my mailbox is about to explode with megabytes of complaints and mailbombs. I hate to think what kind of mess I'll have to deal with when I get back from my holiday next week.
Anyone know how to track down the owner of 1-800-322-6169 EXT 2561, the only contact information in the spam? I'm not in the US so I can't call them to complain. Is there any way I and the spammees could take legal action against them without spending vast amounts of money?
Mark
P.S. Privtool 0.90 is just out at utopia.hacktic.nl; I'll send a proper announcement soon. Privtool is a PGP-aware mail program for X-windows, see details at http://www.unicorn.com/privtool/privtool.html.
Well this seems to be some MLM scam, get rich quick scheme. The number dumps you into a prerecorded voice message for the Global Prosparity Group (I doubt that it is a registered name). You may be able to get more information calling 1-618-692-3972. It seems to be a number for the company that owns the 1-800 number and manages the mailboxes for the other companies. I don't know what action if any you could do against this scumbag that would be worth the expence. I would contact whoever he is using as a mail gateway for his crap and see what if anything they are willing to do about this. Hope this helps, - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM4RJE49Co1n+aLhhAQG+vwQAjp06jA0kXAozMVUt8w2OFNW98rPgIAXO QmbNzlGeMW7DEtJzEvA7b+6EoLrPje0s0sHAG6Bo9zZkrgKqS80VK+2NQlqu/e9N JB28rA2GD8BY8iDkj9PKLTqRKiI1Pi6OtrZEs3WifNsZy5nD6ARqD5hXFx5tHUJT OSHEo+5vmtA= =LSGM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----