Reporting Fraudulent "You Won a $100 Gift Card" emails.
I often get "You won a $100 bonus gift card" emails which I promptly report (because Hotmail has a report phishing menu item).
But I also have email accounts where there are no ways to report clearly fraudulent messages.
Are there any places I can forward fraudulent emails to?
It seems like the wrong thing to do is nothing. I'd like to do something. There's not even a topic here on EE which covers "Fraud" or "Phishing" or "police"
But I also have email accounts where there are no ways to report clearly fraudulent messages.
Are there any places I can forward fraudulent emails to?
It seems like the wrong thing to do is nothing. I'd like to do something. There's not even a topic here on EE which covers "Fraud" or "Phishing" or "police"
David Johnson, CD
just do what everyone else does 'mark them as spam/junk and delete them
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This is one of the most depressing situations. CLEARLY fraudulent emails are being sent constantly and no one, no agency, is doing anything to stop this?
Figure out a way to stop it and you can retire VERY wealthy! No one else has...
because the cost is so low these people can send 1 million messages/second in a spray and pray approach and there are enough 1D10Ts out there that it makes money. The inventors didn't envision this when they designed the protocols.. it was just a wonder to them that it actually worked. There has been talk and proposals that have not got anywhere about micro payments i.e. $0.0001/email
Side note: I think the "work before play" model has merit. The MTA on the receiving end says "Here's a randomly generated puzzle which can be solved by 10 rounds of standard hashing from the correct initial condition. Solve it by finding the correct initial condition, send the solution back to me, and then I'll accept a message."
This would not eliminate junk mail but it would cut the density down. It has two big recommendations -- a) the owner of a subverted machine sending spam would wonder why it occasionally comes to a drop-dead stop when it hashes, and b) as computational power rises, receiving MTAS can up the ante with "... solved by 50 rounds / 100 rounds ..."
This would not eliminate junk mail but it would cut the density down. It has two big recommendations -- a) the owner of a subverted machine sending spam would wonder why it occasionally comes to a drop-dead stop when it hashes, and b) as computational power rises, receiving MTAS can up the ante with "... solved by 50 rounds / 100 rounds ..."