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steve2470

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7. update on hard-core spammer saga....
Tue May 30, 2017, 12:10 PM
May 2017

I had a bit of time on my hands and I got ANOTHER email with almost the exact same verbiage, just a different woman LOL

Sooooo.... I went to https://whois.icann.org/en to find out who had the domains associated with the spam.

Step 1- Go to your gmail account (if you use it but this can be done with any decent email server or webmail)

2- go to spam email

3- find the spam email in question

4- click the "more" down arrow at far right of message

5- click show original

6- copy down the exact domains listed in the gibberish at the top of the email (called the headers)

7- go to the link I gave you above and type in/copy-paste the domains

8- do their captcha thing each time

9- copy down the registrars of the domains (every website has a registrar) and the abuse contact of the registrar

10- in this case, the fool/fools *might have* used register.com and had an abuse contact there (might be spoofed, we'll see)

11- email the exact email to them

12- they then auto-send you back an email that demands you fill out a form to report it

13- fill out the form as completely as you can and choose "spam" as the abuse. I used a JPG file showing
the email and the response address which had a register.com domain. All the other associated domains
were register.com also.

14- I'll find out eventually if the domains were spoofed. If so, meh, won't do this again.


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