When I open some crazy emails there are multiple words underneath the ad. It is as if some one is trying to find an email password or something. How do I send this to the appropriate officials?
2006-12-02 01:05:23 · 7 answers · asked by wookie 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
It's just SPAM. Just delete it! Sending it to your ISP is useless. First off, ISPs don't want to hear about SPAM unless it comes from their own network. Secondly, most e-mail clients will strip the header when you forward an e-mail so there's no way to identify where it came from.
If you want to learn more about SPAM go to http://www.spamcop.net and poke around. They have a way to report SPAM that preserves the headers and notifies the appropriate ISP. Don't expect much in the way of action on those notifications. Most ISPs don't have the resources to track down spammers or the machines that they have hijacked.
The SPAM that you are seeing uses a graphic image for the spamvertised message and adds a bunch of jumbled words to try to make it look like a legitimate e-mail to get it past SPAM filters. Nobody's trying to hack into your machine. As I said earlier, just delete it and move on.
2006-12-02 01:17:25 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is not a hacker trying to find a password. This is spam. The words are supposed to trick the spam filter into thinking this is regular mail. Reporting these emails is pointless as the spammer is using hijacked mail accounts of innocent people. Authorities are near to powerless against these spammers.
The best option is to close your current address, register at a mail forwarder (I use www.e4ward.com, read the FAQ to know more about mail forwarder). Then, never give your new email address, only a forwarded one. Even to your friends, they might unknowingly give your address to a spammer.
2006-12-02 01:22:27 · answer #2 · answered by abo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
block it with your spam button in email so will go to junk mail from now on. you really don't want to even open these as they can infect your computer just by opening them.if you didn't ask for info from a certain email address or its not from a friend then consider it spam and be safe.delete
2006-12-02 01:19:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can report it to the Canadian Police at this toll free number 1-888-495-8501
2006-12-02 01:18:29 · answer #4 · answered by l_l_wolfe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always spam those types of emails
2006-12-02 01:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by ashnoel81 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be a, "Report this as phishing" link (or something resembling that) somewhere in your e-mail client.
2006-12-02 01:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably spam.
send it to you ISP, or blacklist it if you have a spam filter.
2006-12-02 01:06:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋