Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Easter, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, and even today on Columbus Day. The spammers never stop and even on the weekends the phishing schemes and spam e-mails pick up. We can all do our part to stop this nonsense so here's some things you can do.
Don't respond to the e-mail. Don't even opt-out of the e-mail. Don't click on anything in the e-mail. This lets the other party know that they have reached a valid e-mail address. Ignore it for a few days and it may just go away and the e-mails may stop.
If you're lucky, you can read the full header in the e-mail and trace the i.p. address back to the spammer.
Get the i.p. address from the header in the e-mail and do a WHOIS search (found on the internet) and find out what network the spammer is using.
FORWARD (don't REPLY) the e-mail in question to the abuse@ e-mail address provided in the WHOIS registry. That e-mail address is the network admin people who run the network that the spammer is using.
In most cases if the spammer is really abusing the service with spam, the network admin will stop them for you. If you kill off the spammers network connection and the ability to send e-mails, then the spam e-mails will stop for not only you but EVERYONE they send junk to.
I did a few today and forwarded them to abuse@ and for the moment, the spam has stopped.
I really wasn't interested in refinancing a home, enlarging my manhood, or verifying my financial institution today. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.
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