yes, I have noticed an increase in the last several months and just this morning [Saturday] 80% of the emails that arrived overnight were spam! IMHO the best thing to do is immediately forward the emails to: abuse@[lookup abuser's ISP from originating IP address using a WhoIs ]. As the first line on the Forwarded email I add: *** SPAM from your customer: 12.86.200.18 *** [the last one I received this AM] I'm sure many of us on this list receive the same SPAM. If everyone starts doing this maybe the guilty ISPs will start to police their own better. I have noticed a drop in the Yahoo mail from Nigeria attempting fraudulent money transfers... they have gone over to other ISPs but overall the volume has dropped tremendously. Valdis Krebs http://www.orgnet.com
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:02:53 -0600 From: Laura Gurak <gurakl@umn.edu> To: AIR List <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] increase in spam... Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in the amount of porn-type spam they are getting? At least six people, including one journalist, have been asking me what's up. I've heard from both academics and folks in the private sector, and all seem to indicate a sudden (past 5-7 days) rise in this stuff. I personally have noticed it as well. Anyone know what's going on?
---------------- Laura J. Gurak, Ph.D. Associate Professor Rhetoric Department, University of Minnesota 1994 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108 v 612-624-3773 also--Director, Internet Studies Center -- www.isc.umn.edu Faculty Fellow, Law School gurakL@tc.umn.edu http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/faculty/LGurak/