From: Joel Peter Anderson (joela@umn.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 09:06:18 EST
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Hassell, Ian C. wrote:
> I hope that my email address was stolen and not intentionally sold to this
> SPAMmer by yourself or an ASA rep
...
> your mail server. Obviously a SPAMmer is using ASA - the question is
> whether it was intended by ASA or not...
Hello -
I appreciate that this is a concern - often referred to as the "Nigerian Scam", and
there isn't a lot we can do this has spread very wide -
http://www.treas.gov/usss/alert419.shtml
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm
I'd note that it is ludicrous to blame ASA; acquiring email addresses off of web pages
is a trivial exercise - and an unmoderated list can be mailed "to" by anyone.
The best we can do, and it isn't much, is notify the ISP that allowed the mail to
be sent out; they will close the account. Since these are usually disposable accounts
like hotmail or yahoo, it won't stop this. The simplest thing is to delete the mail.
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