posted on May 30, 2002 10:12:46 PM
I received an email from a woman who knew I sold high-end handbags asking me if I would take a look of some photos of bags she had for sale. After looking at them, I told her I did not believe they were authentic and unless she could prove otherwise, I was not interested-2 days later, from the same address, I received a file with a virus. I can't believe there are such money hungry, spiteful people out there! Took me a day to get up and running again-afraid to fight back becuase of what they might do next.
posted on June 6, 2002 12:08:52 AM
Oh I would most definitely fight back. BUT, do it via the ISP that they sent the email from. Just search the net and find the ISP's domain name, contact their customer and/or technical support and tell them what a vindictive act it was they did.
posted on June 15, 2002 08:33:55 PM
What RetroBargains said is true... you can also do the same with most kinds of mail.. for instance, mail you have not asked for or scam. Another thing that can be done is to forward email which may be out-and-out scams such as quick millions, etc. to the FBI. The FBI will investigate emails of that kind. If we all would care about these things, a lot of it would have to stop.
posted on June 15, 2002 08:38:02 PM
In addition to what was said above... Most ASPs have a department which deals with scam and other material which may be offensive. The best way is to address the forwarded email to abuse@whatever_ASP.com (use the real name of course).
[ edited by dlundmark on Jun 15, 2002 08:40 PM ]
