Old Salt
Posts: 489
Location: San Freakcisco CA area | Subject: RE: Just turned a text messaging spammer in....
Here are a couple more sites that supposedly have teeth that I report ALL spam to, whether it be texters on my cell phone or those schmucks who get thru my E-mail spam filters:
IRS: phishing@irs.gov
Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov
California Attorney General: dca@dca.ca.gov [Check - your own state AG probably has a reporting E-mail addy too]
Plus I take the time to notify companies that are used for phishing, i.e. banks, S&Ls, Amazon, E-bay, department store chains, and the like. They all have spam and/or fraud reporting E-mail addresses -- and I use them.
If the company being used in a phishing scam doesn't care, nobody else will -- especially not our ISPs themselves. But the companies do care and they do take action. It is worth a few more entries in your E-mail address book, believe me. I've actually received a few calls from those company security departments as part of their followup - and they are really pissed at the scammers.
Oh, yes, another tip -- I set my filters and block all ".info" URLs and addresses - they are really proliferating and have absolutely nothing that I'm interested in getting in my inbox. |