Re: e-mail tracing

["P S" <seclistmail () hotmail com>]

> And, I have found that most of the really bad s-p-a-m comes from outside 
> the
> US, originates from former Soviet block countries for instance.  Other than
> flying over there and trying to kick someone in the rear, not much 
> recourse.
>
> I have tried emailing ISPs and Registrars and also used the Attorney 
> General
> in the state where I live for some assistance.
>
> My biggest frustration is when the s-p-a-m-m-e-r-s spoof one of the domains
> I own and then I get all the bounces.  They are almost committing identify
> theft in that case, in my view.

Hi, first I would like to say thank you for everybody for the answers, I 
really apprechiate it, I learnt a lot and I am definitely better now reading 
the headers and tracing mails.
I didn't trace any of those viagra etc... mails, I was only interested in 
bank scams. Tracing the e-mails gave various results, Brazil, Korea, China, 
but the most interesting thing was when I traced back the servers where the 
fake confirmation windows were hosted, all of them were in China (okay, and 
one in Japan).

Steve had an interesting point, up until now I thought all this spamming 
only makes the end user mad, getting all that junk, I never even thought 
about the faked domains and their real owners.

Thank you again,

Peter S

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