I’ve been receiving the same spam daily for a classic pyramid scheme for the past week. I’m sure it’s illegal, but not sure who I might report it to. It asks me to reply to a domain that is registered with Network Solutions - I have the contact information from that registration, in New York City. Is it worthwhile to send it to the NYC Better Business Bureau? Is there someone else who would be interested?
At least in Washington State, the Attorney General’s office takes an interest in such matters. The AG for your state (at least according to your profile) is here.
Spamcop might be worthwhile.
You have to look at the header of the email, every one has it, here is one from walmart:
Received: by mail.redshift.com (mbox xxxx)
(with Cubic Circle’s cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Fri Jan 5 18:52:19 2001)
X-From_: walmart@walmart.m0.net Fri Jan 5 18:22:42 2001
Return-Path: <walmart@walmart.m0.net>
Received: from fac1010.m0.net (idaho.m0.net [209.11.133.252])
by mail.redshift.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f062MgT06024
for <xxxxx@redshift.com>; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:22:42 -0800
Message-ID: <2868927776.978747765995@m0.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:22:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Walmart Wire <walmart@walmart.m0.net>
Reply-to: walmart@walmart.m0.net
To: xxxx@redshift.com
Subject: Clearance Items at Walmart.com
Errors-to: walmart@walmart.m0.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="—=_NEXT_e3e1e9b4db"
X-cid: 2868927776
I changed some of my info in it but at this point Im going to let someone figure out who you would write from that header info.
The header indicates that the spam is coming from/via Japan. Spamcop shows the reply-to address as clean, but the ISP as a known spam source.
My attorney general’s office seems to be uninterested, but I’ve forwarded it to the FTC.
Thanks for the replies!