I get these ‘419’ mails a fair bit at my work mail address;where I don’t have the sam level of spam protection that I have at home; I used to just ignore them…then I realised that just because I don’t fall for them doesn’t mean that no-one else will. I recently started forwarding the recieved mail along with it’s headers to the abuse@ address for any domain I could find in the headers…so far I’ve had great responses from the email providers, usually resulting in the address used by the fraudsters being shut down within a few minutes of my mail.
So, if you get one, maybe you should be the same…you may just help someone else out by sending this stuff back to the abuse address where it came from…
posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:32 AM | Print

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# re: Recieve a '419' scam mail - forward it it the abuse address...
Posted by clairwil on 3/21/2005 6:15 PM
Thank-you for a very useful post. I seem to have been spending half my leisure time deleting these e-mails. I had been hoping if I ignored them they might eventually stop. However I'll give reporting the buggers a try.
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# re: Recieve a '419' scam mail - forward it it the abuse address...
Posted by Scott Galloway on 3/21/2005 7:49 PM
Cool - remember to forward the headers; in Outlook 2003, double click the message -> View - > Options...all the text in Internet Headers should be included. Also, it's worth looking for any mail addresses they want to be sent to as well as the address it came from. Gettting the 'to' address closed is far more important!
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