Thursday, January 8, 2009

Stopping Porn e-mails

I am getting e-mails at work to look at porn stuff - like animal porn, etc. I don't know where these people are getting my e-mail address - I have unsubscribed every time I get one and a couple of weeks go by and they are sending them again. This is making me crazy. These people need to be stopped - I have never subscribed to any porm sites - how can I stop this??? They need to be turned into someone. This is over and beyond porn - its pictures of girls making it with animals, and other filthy things - it shows right on the e-mails. I have never clicked into any of these sites - I ALWAYS click the 'unsubscribe' button - sometimes it works and sometimes it goes nowhere. Please advise me what I can do to make this stop once and for all? I also have tried to reply to the e-mail address it came from and it always comes back 'undeliverable'. PLEASE HELP ME!!! Kay Hoover Thanks for any help you can provide.

Thank you for your reply - I haven't had time yet today (because of work) to research the information you gave me - I forwarded the info to my home e-mail. I will do what you say and see what happens. You did alot of research to find this out...thanks. It was a great answer but don't have very much money to tip tip right now. I didn't know about the tipping part so I'll get back to you with a tip. I hope this is ok.

Thank you amaze20000, I have to say I'm disappointed that I may not be able to stop this - but I will try anything and everything suggested. I appreciate the additional information you just provided - all of this has been a real eye opener for me - I had no idea, until I started receiving these e-mails, that there was this sort of thing going on in our America - unsolicited. Thanks again for this info.

Greetings kay7, I find it awful that you are receiving these pornographic spam emails, especially at work when you are trying to conduct business. Spam is a worldwide problem that unfortunately has no clean-cut solution. I'm going to give you some information on steps you can take to help rid yourself of the spam and also take action against those sending it. First of all, some basic tips I found in an article on "How to Stop Porn Spam": Full article: http://www.moralityinmedia.org/index.htm?stopSpam.htm "1. If you've been "spammed" by someone you don't know, do not reply to the sender or follow any "removal instructions" which might be included. Why? Because if you "unsubscribe," you're telling the pornster that your e-mail address is working, and they then turn around and sell your address to other spamsters. 2. If you receive porn spam, complain to your United States Attorney. Don't accuse anyone of a crime; just ask your U.S. Attorney's office to investigate the porn spam as a possible violation of the Federal Obscenity Laws that prohibit the use of computers to transmit obscene material (18 USC 1462 and 1465). MIM has a list of the 93 U.S. Attorney's offices across the country on our Obscenity Enforcement page. 3. Complain to your Internet Service Provider (ISP). 4. Complain to their Internet Service Provider (ISP)." I suggest reading the entire article as it lists some other interesting points such as how these people manage to obtain the email addresses of their "victims" and also other things you can do to report the problem. Another thing you can do is report the offenders to the U.S. attorneys office via an online form available from Obscenity Crimes.org: "WHAT DO I DO ABOUT 'PORN SPAM' IN MY E-MAIL BOX?" http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/complaint/ReportPornSpam.cfm Once you take care of reporting the problem senders to the proper authorities, the next thing you need to do is try to block or filter out the spam messages so they don't fill up your inbox. There are dozens of software spam killing solutions available on the market. These applications run on your PC and basically download your email before it reaches your Inbox, filtering out everything it can detect as SPAM. I would recommend reading up on a few of them and trying to determine which one may work best for you. CNet.com did a review of two popular Spam killers back in June of this year, McAfee's SpamKiller ($39.95 - Now works with MSN/Hotmail) and SpamCop ($30). Each of these solutions received high marks from CNet labs. Symantec recently added Spam Blocking to their popular "Norton Internet Security 2003" software application. Another product CNet recently reviewed was Sunbelt's iHateSpam, which they found especially useful if you use Microsoft Outlook. I'll leave links to all these reviews at the end of this answer. If you work in a large office or for a corporation, you should ask them to look into installing corporate-based spam blocking tools such as those that run on the BrightMail database. Many large corporations such as BrightMail focus on ridding the world of spam by building databases of spammers and helping software vendors to filter out these people. And, of course, the last thing you can do is change your email address and only give the new one out to people that you know. Never post messages on any type of public forum or newsgroup or signup for public newsletters that are not from reputable companies. Spammers get their list of addresses by using sophisticated robots that scour all the public forums and newsgroups on the Internet and pull out all the email addresses they can find. They also purchase email addresses from third-parties that host "newsletters" and "contests" which are used almost solely for gathering your personal information. I hope I've given you some things to think about and have helped to answer your question regarding email based spam. Please don't hesitate to "ask for clarification" if you need further assistance with this question -- I'll be happy to answer any follow-up questions you have or conduct further research if necessary. Thanks! Sincerely, PWizard CNET Roundup: Spam Stoppers (6/11/02) http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227888-8-9984052-1.html?tag=txt CNET: SunBelt iHateSpam Review (7/26/02) http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227888-1204-20178661.html?tag=pdtl-list Norton Internet Security 2003 Information http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/nis_pe/features.html BrightMail Anti-Spam Technology http://www.brightmail.com/

Forgot to add: Morality in Media is a great organization, but their hands are tied by the ACLU and others who believe in freedom of speech no matter the cost of abuse to people. And our government can't prosecute porn spammers that originate outside of the U.S. Even the FBI has no interest. Sorry! :) shel

While the question was answered by a person with good intentions for sure, they answers are irrelevant. I have been working on this for years and years. Here is the stark reality: 1. ISPs do not care; it is too expensive and difficult to curb porn. Sometimes, ISPs are paid very well by spammers to "ignore" their spam. Those spammers are placed on what is called a "pink list." 2. Most porn is sent by overseas operations, whose countries either do not properly regulate spammers, or the countries' economies are so desperate that goverment officiials or ISPs are easily paid off to shut up. 3. I used to use SpamCop (spamcop.net) for reporting spammers before I realized that the ISPs just don't care.. nor do many of the hosting companies the porn spam mail refers to. Regardless of the terms of service that may be stated by the ISPs or hosting services.

Also, your e-mail service provider is a big indicator. Certain web-based e-mail providers are markedly worse than others when it comes to spam. Many people suspect that they are selling email addresses to spammers. Try a few of the top providers and see which one works best for you. The same goes for your local ISP - some seem to have problems while others do not. I use Yahoo and have never had a problem in over 4 years.

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