Fighting Spam?

Question

I'm tired of getting spam, and people using my domain in forged spam emails. I am not a ISP but I have my business website and work emails.

1. What would be the best approach to sue them?
2. How to prepare for this level of work?

Yes I'm willing to take the full headers apart, look though the html and find the domains that sent it. Use DNS lookup tools to find the owner of the company. Contact Secretary of the State to get real business information. Use a honeypot email addresses on my server just for skimming accounts.

Other notes:
- incorporated in Idaho.
- I'm willing to put a full time worker on the task.

Answer 1

If you want to sue somebody, that is your constitutional right. However, you have to be sure you have enough evidence.

I have so much spam. If I was suing every spammer successfully, I would have millions of dollars by now. The thing is the lawsuits are expensive and if the defendant wins, I would not get a penny back.

Meanwhile, I have stopped emptying the Bulk folder. I want the yahoo staff to see how much spam I have and may they be ashamed of it. I am one of the Yahoo Mail Plus users by the way and I remain their customer just because I can use the AddressGuard. If the AddressGuard would not work the way it is meant to, I would kiss them goodbye.

At least this way of handling spam does not cost me a penny.

Answer 2

Forget it, I get well over 1,000 spams / day, just install spamassassin and set the bar sky high, my spam filters delete 99.96% of all incoming email.

I know what you're saying, I would love nothing more than to take a baseball bat to a spammer's computer, but no matter what you do there is always another, and another, and another, it never ends.

Best thing we can do is ignore them, trash that crap time and again, too bad it compromises good email but that's just the breaks, you can whitelist some things.

I'd also be for installing filters and milters, and obviously there are certain things you can implement if you lease the server things are way easier.

On that note, it would cost far less to rent your own dedicated server than it would to try and sue a spammer. DO feel free to blacklist them thou.

Answer 3

The first thing to do is call your domain host. I had the same problem. Someone had forged my domain. I contacted Go Daddy support, we changed few settings, and the spam disappeared completely!

Answer 4

I understand that att/ yahoo needs a huge amount of adcrap payments.
To sue those companies makes no sence because their lawiers are on their payroll for years to come.
The only other venue would be through the FCC;also the tax payer pays their salary and ....Now everybody flushes my accoun with garbage !

Answer 5

i think of you will need extra then boxing gloves 2 combat thee impossible interior the international of spammers.. yet stable question : ) i for my section think of having your digital mail handle on your profile in solutions, is one way spammers are moving into our mail and bulk.. bummer eh..