Maybe Spamalot?;)
Nick Landau
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From: Mary Liddell
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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Pump and Dump - the SEC's preferred
"solution"
You can also forward the spam to [log in to unmask] -- although I
think the preferred method would be to drag the spam e-mail into the body of
your e-mail to spamalert.
You can go to http://research.ciphertrust.com/tools.php?tool=toolbar and get
the toolbar to place in your Outlook.
Mary F. Liddell
Information Access Officer
Brunel University
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Trent
Sent: 29 November 2006 08:14
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [data-protection] Pump and Dump - the SEC's preferred "solution"
Marginally off topic, but spam and spam protection and spam handling are
seen by a lot of us as germane to privacy.
Most of you are behind big, organisation wide, spam filtering oojits that
get rid of 99% of this utter garbage. Some of your filters will be so
darned good that you haven't even seen one. If you have no idea what I'm
talking about then you can find a couple of examples here:
http://www.complianceandprivacy.com/News-Pump-and-Dump-scam.asp
One thing I've discovered as that the US SEC has an email address where they
really actively want all pump and dump spam sent! if you head for
http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml it says:
"Spams - Forward investment-related spam e-mails to
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Over the past few days I've been creating rules within my email client to
forward every last pump and dump spam to that address (and also one to
delete their replies!). It makes sense to report them to the US because I
have not yet seen one spam that is anything other than US stock.
I get about 100 of these things a day because our ISP was asked to remove
filtering from our account - they filtered out client emails - so we chose
spam and inconvenience instead of losing business. Now they go to the SEC,
out of my mailbox, and I feel I am doing a "civic duty".
I do realise that all the spams come from a "botnet" of hacked computers and
there is little point in reporting them as spam, so I've just chosen the
SEC. I could equally well also report them via (eg) SpamCop as spam, but
that would involve me in 100+ SpamCop confirmations per day, and I'm just
not up for that. I also know that the "to addresses" are mostly guessed
addresses, not harvested from anywhere at all. The days of spam harvesting
are not over, but it is no longer a protection to avoid publicising your
email address (though still very sensible if you can avoid doing it)
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