Roger wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:26:17 -0600, -exray
wrote:

Well clearly they want the things reported to them so they can get the
header info and have the bogus sites shut down as rapidly as possible.


Not really. It depends mainly on the integrity of the site hosting
the problem. A forward of the problem post/e-mail *with headers* to a
good ISP will cause them to check. If they come up with anything that
user is gone.

"Not really"? Are we disagreeing about something?


OTOH there are sites stateside and off shore where catching some one
is like pulling teeth or they just move to the server setting beside
the one they were using.

They may move on, most spammers do, and often its a case of hijacking a
server so he as an individual is gone already. What amazes me is how
fast these Romanian (not to pick on Romanians in particular but you get
the gist) websites get closed down. ebay obviously carries some clout.
Maybe they call Donald Rumsfeld first and have him threaten to come
over and look for WMDs. That can get nasty.


I'm not going to say the average user, but rather most users are
completely clueless about computers, the Internet, viruses and scams.

Roger, we are preaching to the choir. These spam and fraud issues are
almost daily subjects (ad nauseum) on any internet forum such as this
one. Hell, these scams get reported on the evening network news. You'd
have to live in a cave...seems that quite a few people do!


-Bill