The Monday 2004-05-17 at 17:44 +0200, J. Theriault wrote:
Lately, the spam I have been receiving has been more and more offensive and illegal in it's offerings (many obious bank fraud scams,
Usually I sent the most flagrant of those to an email of my country police, internet fraud or crime divission. But I suppose they were receiving so much spam that the closed it :-( I saw a note on my bank web page saying they were very interested in being notified about emails asking clientes their for account data, and they cited a phone, 24*7. I assume any bank mentioned in those scams should be interested in knowing. If what you receive is about the "nigerian spam", there was a link about it on the FBI page. It appears some people were killed: United States Secret Service: Advance Fee Fraud Advisory http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml If you are interested on the humor side, see: Conversations with a Nigerian Bank Scammer http://www.geocities.com/lapetitelesson/cs/conversation.html I suppose you will find more links there, or googling. I don't even know if they are still valid.
pirated software, etc...)
The agency protecting or handling software copyrights in your country, I assume.
and when left with only an unlisted phone number or domain it can be difficult to know where to send the information to have the proper action taken, especially if it's a foreign country.
I don't bother. Only if it affect a local institution (they use their name) I may inform them, forwarding the email to them. If they don't have an email, I do nothing.
At the moment I report major problems (such as domains offering bank scams) to the ISPs in question and ignore most "normal" spam.
The ISP... :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson