# Gee thanks for putting CHILD PORN on my hard drive! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839 "2001-11-12T02:02:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/1 "2001-11-12T02:02:07Z")
I hate spam. Even more, I hate porn spam. But I didn’t know how much I could hate an email until I got your fucking CHILD PORN SPAM!!! It was bad enough that you were promoting child porn, but you embedded an attached picture in the mail, which is automatically downloaded and plopped into my Eudora\attach directory. Good thing I noticed the mail, or I’d have just left a freaking CHILD PORN picture on my hard drive, never knowing it was there. I reported it to the FBI, and I sealed the disgusting image in a zip file in case they need it… bleah. Fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/2 "2001-11-12T02:10:53Z")
Fuck. I’d take a shower and scrub until I bled if I were you. And Satan’s scorn for the first person to come in here jokingly ask for a link. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/3 "2001-11-12T02:31:33Z")
[http://www.spamcop.net](http://www.spamcop.net) Report them, and get them shut down. Caz [sub]Same thing happened to me a while back, and I’m still trying to scrub the image from my mind - but the site was closed within 24 hours, thank you Russian hosting ISP who actually reacted to my complaint.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/4 "2001-11-12T02:34:51Z")
Actually, don’t save the file, hard delete it. You could be accused of possessing child pornography if you have it on your system, even if you were only keeping it as evidence. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/5 "2001-11-12T03:04:47Z")
**FUCKING FUCK!** The fucking fucker just hit _ME_!!! Jeez… what am I willing to bet the address is not real? And that the “link to our page” may be intended to harvest _my_ address? And who in his right mind SENDS something truly illegal on a SPAM??? Whoever you are, spammer, suck my grown up, legal-aged member. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/6 "2001-11-12T03:50:24Z")
I am considering putting the email and image on a floppy and mailing it to the FBI along with a printout just so I can get the vile thing off my computer. Ugh. They got you too??? Was it the same one, I wonder? Did the body of the email say “Wonderful illegal site” ? ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/7 "2001-11-12T05:52:10Z")
Just a question. Don’t you have to be careful sending this shit to the FBI. I’ve heard horror stories about people prosecuted for forwarding child porn to them. True, or an UL? Lots o’ sick fucks in this world, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/8 "2001-11-12T05:56:31Z")
probably too late, but next time you get something like that, get the mail’s properties. Sometimes it it should have the real source of the mail, unless it was spoofed. A better idea is to take the HTML file along with it, save it as a text file and send that to the FBI. The mail will sometimes have links to a porn site. Report that site as well. I don’t think that it will stay in business to long if it is associated with spamming unsuspecting people with child porn. It will all but be forced to cooperate if it wasn’t their doing. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/9 "2001-11-12T06:02:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Sometimes it it should have the real source of the mail, unless it was spoofed. Just for the record, I have ever sent, nor do I ever intend to send, child porn via spam. However, I WILL send pictures of two Lego-people “doin’ it”. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/10 "2001-11-12T06:42:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*probably too late, but next time you get something like that, get the mail’s properties. Sometimes it it should have the real source of the mail, unless it was spoofed. \*\* Yes, I sent it to them with the full headers. It wouldn’t do them much good without them. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/11 "2001-11-12T07:58:38Z")
Before you forward it - was it true child pornography, in that it showed children performing sexual acts? I’m curious because there is stuff on the internet that many people would consider child pornography that the FBI can do nothing about because it doesn’t meet the criteria. I find it really weird if it really was kiddie porn that got sent out to people, as email is pretty easy to trace if you can get law enforcement people behind it. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/12 "2001-11-12T08:39:49Z")
it showed a little girl spread eagle, touching her labia with her hand. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/13 "2001-11-12T14:08:06Z")
Gah! What was the subject line, so I can avoid it? (Oh, and: never, EVER, EVER keep ANY child porn ANYWHERE or send it to anyone, even as “evidence.”) ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/14 "2001-11-12T15:23:36Z")
Wow, I’ve been offered a lot of bestiality and rape-related porn spam lately and thought at the time that the world of spam had hit bottom and started to dig. Guess I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/15 "2001-11-12T23:04:46Z")
I hate to ask this, but what were the filenames? [Background rant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=92882). An uncle of mine was recently arrested for possession of child porn, and he’s apparently claiming that something similar happened to him. I’m having a hard time believing his story (or what I know of it). I’d like to see if the names of the files from your spam match up with the ones on his indictment. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/16 "2001-11-13T00:02:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > > They got you too??? Was it the same one, I wonder? Did the body of the email say “Wonderful illegal site” ? Thet’s the one… with the “cool” site-name… and that tasteful display of a crime being committed. _ **AND THE FUCKING FUCKS HIT MY OTHER ATT ACCOUNT TODAY!!! EEEAAAAAGHHH!!!** _ Hey, MORONS, I try to be a LAW-ABIDING pervert!!! I have got into enough mischief on my very own so if I wanted to commit a Federal Offense I can figure out how. I don’t need your help… Sorry, **black455** and **Chef Troy** , I already had hard-deleted the materials before hitting the boards, so can’t help with the names/subject lines/whatever. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/17 "2001-11-13T00:05:29Z")
Actually, the last line in my last post was supposed to be addressed to black455 and **matt\_mcl** , not Chef Troy. Oh hell, I’m just livid… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/18 "2001-11-13T02:24:15Z")
JRD: To me the girl in the picture looked about 8. Too gross. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Czaoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Czaoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czaoth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/19 "2001-11-13T05:06:55Z")
Haven’t read the replies, but if no one has told you yet **DELETE IT NOW**. You can be prosecuted and I have heard “stories” of such instances. Possesing it is the crime. There are no provisions for holding it as evidence as far as I know. No cites for the “stories” but better safe then in jail. Oh yeah, fucking spammers can go to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839/20 "2001-11-13T05:36:28Z")
Don’t just delete it, run a defrag afterwards, just to be safe. When you delete a file on your hard drive it’s not actually erased, it’s just removed from the directories and the space it’s on is marked so it can be copied over. If the authorities did inspect your HD for whatever reason they could still find it. There is no reason to suspect such a search is impending but with something as serious as that you do NOT want to take chances and there are scenarios that could lead to it being found, i.e. someone who doesn’t like you reading your post and reporting you. If you run a defrag all the files on your computer will be rearranged and there is a very high chance that the kiddie porn would be copied over. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-thanks-for-putting-child-porn-on-my-hard-drive/92839.md?page=2)