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  • From: <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
  • Subject: Help! I've been abused!
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:05:22 -0400


Talk about makin' a body real mad.... It's happened again! I'm getting a slew
of failed mail notifications because some spam [nasty] has appropriated my
e-mail address! I reported it to the Mindspring/Earthlink abuse desk, but
don't know if they can/will do anything (I sent a copy of the full text of
one of the 30 failure notifications).... Anyone have any further ideas? I do
have the failure notifications, some of which include an attachment of the
filthy spam....

Can I sue someone? Can I have someone arrested for stealing my online
identity? Should I write my Congresscritters? (Actually, I'd rather get the
jerks thrown off of their ISP but whois doesn't recognize their site -- which
is teens.sexln.com (an actual working site, ugh).)

A typical header from one of the more complete attached originals is:

Received: from compuserve.com ([216.161.204.81]) by vr2d.cybernaute.com
(Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-57027U1200L100S0V35)
with SMTP id com for <cleo AT cybernaute.com>;
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:52:38 -0400
To: cleo <cleo AT cybernaute.com>
From: beeline AT mindspring.com
X-Mailer: OutLook Express 3.14159
Subject: cleo - teen-X-teen!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

And here's another for comparison:

Received: from awserver5.teledisc.com ([205.200.9.55])
by awserver1.awnet.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219
ID# 0-54873U1000L100S0V35) with SMTP id com
for <dpma4009 AT awnet.com>; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:47:48 -0500
Received: from 203.42.166.49 by awserver5.teledisc.com (InterScan E-Mail
VirusWall NT); Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:32:58 -0500
To: dpma4009 <dpma4009 AT awnet.com>
From: beeline AT mindspring.com
X-Mailer: OutLook Express 3.14159
Subject: dpma4009 - teen-X-teen!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


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