Whats the best way to spam a spammer?

[MASSEY]

I keep getting emails from stupid sites like [email protected] pretending to be hsbc, but once you ignore all possible emails they then send the next lot from [email protected] they are both obviously fake. But what is the best way spam them back? something not to time consuming would be good.

 

[wecandobiz]

Why waste your time?

Just forward details of the scam email to Action Fraud and they'll get on to it.

 

[Posilan]

I keep getting emails from stupid sites like [email protected] pretending to be hsbc, but once you ignore all possible emails they then send the next lot from [email protected] they are both obviously fake. But what is the best way spam them back? something not to time consuming would be good.

There isn't. Any attack you do will just hurt innocent ISP's and or peoples "zombied" PC's.

These guys almost never use thier own systems to send out this type of spam.

Steve

 

[ESSindia]

You don't bite a dog. Keep adding to your spam list!

 

[Becky Midgley]

No, they are getting really sneaky! I came into work jus last week to find a shed-load of emails to our member services account. They had basically got a load of email addresses (thankfully not ours/yours) and sent their mailing from our @ukbusinessforums email address! Cheeky devils!

 

[serasan]

Get yourself a googlemail account.

Very little spam gets to my inbox.

I used to use hotmail, as did my Mother. We were both getting fed up with ***** extension and viagra offers.

Since moving to googlemail a few years ago things are much better now.

 

[MASSEY]

These are personal biz name emails this is what really bugs me about it. I try keep them private as possible to avoid these types of emails.

I will just forward them to the fraud site like suggested.

 

[mit74]

you cant spam them back, it's unlikely the email has come from that source but from a hacked website using the PHP server to send out emails. not much you can do except visit the website in question (use a non-work computer or linux in case of malicious content), find out the ISP for that website, actual owener and contact them and also the bank to say the site is being used for phising. Many of these websites are legit websites that have been hacked so probably would appreciate you letting them know.

 

[MASSEY]

Did a bit of googling and the same company in New Zealand own a shed load of mis spellings for banks in the UK.

They even have Barclacys, they hope people don't realise the mis spell. Some people eh .

Domain name:
santanda.co.uk
Registrant:
Coherent Ltd.
Registrant type:
Non-UK Corporation
Registrant's address:
PO Box 1136
Palmerston North
Manawatu
4440
New Zealand
Registrar:
Coherent Limited [Tag = COHERENT-NZ]
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 20-Dec-2010
Renewal date: 20-Dec-2012
Last updated: 22-Dec-2010
Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.
Name servers:
ns1.dsredirection.com
ns2.dsredirection.com
WHOIS lookup made at 07:25:31 22-Mar-2011

 

[rshosting]

I would suggest not to waste your time and energy by thinking of spamming them.. Spammers are devils and induldging with devil will harm you and not the devil...
Instead use filters, update your spam black lists etc to avoid them..

 

[Experienced IT guy]

As mentioned earlier, a google mail account is by far the best way. you can redirect your mail to it easily, there is a huge free limit, you can access your mail from anywhere you can use a browser. The anti spam filter is in general very good. There are a few occasions where there are spams to xyz @ my domain where xyz has never existed, and are not caught but is easy to create a rule to send those straight to bin. If you browse in opera, when you create a reply you get automatic spell checking as well.
HTH