I do not know how to spam them.How do I get rid of someones unwanted e mail. without changing my e mail address?You can block the emails.
Go to %26quot;Options%26quot; It is above your email
Click on %26quot;Mail Options%26quot;
Click on %26quot;SPAM%26quot;
Go down to %26quot;Blocked Email Address%26quot;
Enter the address you want to block
Click on “Add Block”
Click on “Save”
Hope this helps!!!How do I get rid of someones unwanted e mail. without changing my e mail address?If you spam them, your IP might shut you down. Here is one way that you can go. For example if you use hotmail, I have an article that shows you in detail how to do this, it is done in a similar way in Yahoo, the options are just located in a different part of the menu:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article…How do I get rid of someones unwanted e mail. without changing my e mail address?For a general deluge of spam, it can be a losing battle, but if you have a few repeat spammers it can be worthwhile to fight back.
Here are some tools that will help:
Traceroute is available at
http://www.opus1.com/www/traceroute.html
ARIN whois on IP numbers is available at
https://ws.arin.net/whois/
How to use them? Well, at those sites, read any available advice on how to interpret what they mean.
You will need to open the email to show complete headers. Different programs have different ways to select this. Sometimes it is called %26quot;View Source%26quot;. In Yahoo, you will find a link %26quot;Full Headers%26quot; to the bottom right of the message. You need these, because dirtbag spammers can forge addresses, but somewhere in the headers are probably IP (a.k.a. DNS) numbers that will identify their hosting service. They are in four groups of 1-3 digits. There may be more than one. Some may be from the internal network, some will be from the provider used to access the internet, some may be from an addition site (e.g. webmail), some may be forged, and some may or may not be added by your own email service. In general, deeper is usually close to the spammer. If the ones at the top are for your own service provider, look deeper. The headers should have numbers that will enable the host to identify the account that was used.
It's a good idea to open a text editor like Notepad to keep notes when you are working up a spam.
Look up the IP numbers in the whois of the Regional Internet Registry (RIR). There are five in the world, and the one to use depends on the location of the spammer's host. I usually start with ARIN.
U.S. and Canada
https://ws.arin.net/whois/
Asia Pacific
http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_se…
Africa
http://www.afrinic.net/
Latin America
http://lacnic.net/en/index.html
Europe
http://www.db.ripe.net/whois
The spamvertiser is the company for whom the spam was sent. If there is a link in the email, the displayed text may not show it correctly. Right click on the link, and select Copy Shortcut. Paste that into your notes. Find the domain and do traceroute to resolve it to its IP number, which it should do at the top of the traceroute report. Copy that number to your notes. Do ARIN lookup.
It may be safer to skip the above step (unless you are using linux or a Mac). Sometimes the link will trigger downloads of malware if you left click it.
For example, if I do traceroute on yahoo.com, it shows me IP number of 209.191.93.53, which ARIN shows is registered to Yahoo. Get the abuse address for the host of the spamvertiser.
You can now forward the spam, with full headers displayed, to the abuse departments. I like to include a note that says something like:
Spam from [ip number from header] hosted by [registrant of that IP number]
for spamvertiser [link from coped shortcut] at [ip number from traceroute] hosted by [registrant of that IP number]
Some email programs will include the headers when you forward, but Yahoo trims them out. To make this work, with the spammers message open and Full Headers selected, select and copy the headers. Paste into your notes. In your forwarding you can write: %26quot;Here are full headers%26quot; and copy them from your notes and paste them in above the forwarded body of the spam.
I like to send a Bcc to myself to show that my email, went through, to keep a record of the report, and to see how it is displayed to the recipient.
