i don't know if I've ever actually received 1 of those spam messages from a host inside Nigeria
wow, i seem to get several per day. would you like some, i can setup an exploder for some of my spam if anyones interested? ;)
and they're all actually sent/relayed through a host in Nigeria? my first few were, none that I received after that were. alot from south africa, and a few other parts, but no more from Nigeria
Thanks for the prompt response to the problem with our IP address. I have alreday instructed all staff to be more vigilant and we are going through the list of people who came around that time on saturday to track down who sent this email. I am in the process of buying a cybercafe management software which allows the administrator to look at diffrent PCs and see what people are doing so that if we spot things like this we will stop it. Furthermore, I have instructed my team to program the webcams to take snapshot of the shop every 20 minutes so that we can see who was in the shop at what time. I have also made sure we have notices put up in the cafe to say we do not tolerate email spamming and anybody caught will be reported to the autorities for appropriate action However, I must stress that this is a cybercafe where 100% of people who come there use web based email and there is no software or mechanism to stop spamming from web based emails. You can see from the mail that was sent
Interestingly enough, I got the following today from a Cybercafe in Nigeria that I had blocked: that
the person put a web based email address as the return address. Therefore I cannot guarantee that this will not happen again , I can only put measures in place to deter people. If there is any software you know about that would prevent this or mechanism please let me know and I will put it in place immediately I am surprised however that there is no responsibility placed on providers of web based emails who are in the best position to filter out and prevent such emails from being delivered. I hope all the measures highlighted above will be enough for you to go to the ISP to reactivate our blocked IP
cheers Adeyinka
So what exactly do people do in regards to Web spam? I block tcp/80 but would like to hear what others are doing. Regards, Hank