Track an email... (nevermind)

[Unclemo]

I keep getting some spam that I cannot ubsubscribe to... and does not seem to come from a site (that at least works). How can I figure out where it comes from? Thanks

Nevermind.. the IP address was slightly wrong...

 

[Ladi]

You'll need to dig through the headers on the email. http://www.spamcop.net has some tools that may help you, but don't count on being able to get off the spammail list. Your best bet is to configure your email client to route spam directly to trash (Tools>Rules Wizard in Outlook, for example).

~Ladi

 

[MWalkden]

As a sample look at this message part (from hotmail.com)
look after the ************* for more info

From: sdf435@ydtldmun.yahoo.com Reply-To: 343c@gmx.net
To: v_dawn_long@mwsvny.hotmail.com
Subject: Where will your business be in 2001? -ngfgvckmy
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:29:08 -0500
Received: from [165.95.70.100] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB4012410057D820F3AEA55F4664AD3F0; Thu Jul 20 02:32:58 2000
Received: from 4w6q8q2.compuserve.com by ttisan1. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)id EAA12138; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:20:58 -0500
From oklfgp@hotbot.com Thu Jul 20 02:36:00 2000
Message-Id: <stx85y8w1q3u.4e5epjt0bh@4w6q8q2.compuserve.com>
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT


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*************
Received: from [165.95.70.100] by hotmail.com

The program TRACERT can help track the ip address down
But I use a program called NEO TRACE
http://www.neoworx.com/

http://www.neoworx.com/download/download.asp?product=NeoTrace

for shareware version
this is just part of a sample trace (from above IP #)

23 tamuswan-ttvn-amcs-1-ge-1.tamu.edu 165.91.254.8 30.608N, 96.317W 325 325 325 325 1 0

24 tamu-teexsanantonio.ttvn.tamus.edu 165.95.252.6 Unknown 613 613 613 613 1 0

25 ttis-1.ttvn.tamus.edu 165.95.252.142 Unknown 439 439 439 439 1 0

26 ttisan1.tamu.edu 165.95.70.100 30.608N, 96.317W- 0 0 0 2 2

This spammer got shut down from my complaints to abuse@----
sometimes you have to use webmaser@----

hope this helps you
michael J. champlin
ussrover@mail.com

 

[Unclemo]

Thanks, I am downloading these programs now...