The Anonymous Widower

How To Stop Spam!

A few days ago, someone stared sending masses of spam from a Hotmail account faking them so that it appeared they came from one of my business e-mail addresses. This technique is used to try to get round spam filters.  The consequence though, was that I got masses of bounces from mail systems that rejected his junk.

I reported him to abuse@hotmail.com, but all I got was a simple acknowledgement.

Then yesterday I sent the spammer a short e-mail saying.

I have a friend with connections to Mossad and that they have means of stopping spam.

A few hours afterwards and the messages stopped. He could have course just got bored or been chopped by Microsoft.

But who cares! The messages stopped.

November 11, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Computing | E-Mail, Spam