Hi Russell,

I would try the US embassy, they should be able to put you in touch with
someone in the US, as this sort of crap is bad for the US, not just your
friend who's address is being bombarded.

Regards,

Kat.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: [OT]: Help required against spammers misappropriating our email
address


> Fairly OT but hopefully someone here can provide some good advice.
>
> A good friend has had his email address used as a dummy return address by
an
> (apparently) USA based firm running some get rich quick scheme which
appears
> to be a scam. See below for details.
>
> Any idea how to go about stopping this happening.
>
>
>
>
>       Russell McMahon
> _____________________________
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Mardle"
> To: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@clear.net.nz>
> Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 13:36
> Subject: any ideas
>
>
> > Russell,
> >
> > We are having big problems with some swine who has appropriated our
email
> > address such that their undeliverable spam emails are returned to us.
> Over
> > the last few days we have been inundated with bounced emails arriving at
a
> > rate of about one a minute.
> >
> > The emails appear to originate in the US and the text contains US
> telephone
> > numbers.  They are promoting a scheme whereby you are "trained" to
process
> > US child support payment applications from your home PC.  This has all
the
> > hallmarks of a scam.
> >
> > Any ideas of who may be able to help solve our problem and if possible
> > create as much inconvenience for the perpetrators as possible.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ken Mardle
> >
> > Applied Digital Research Ltd.  Tel    : +64 9 415-2514
> > P.O. Box 6480                  Fax    : +64 9 415-3514
> > Wellesley St                   Mobile : +64 25 879-648
> > Auckland
> > NEW ZEALAND                    WWW    : http://www.he.net/~adr/
> >                                         http://www.acqura.com
> >
> >
> >
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