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Is There Any Reason to Report Spammers to ISPs?
marko_ramius asks: "For years I've been a good netizen and reported spam that I get to the appropriate contacts at various ISPs. In the entire time that I've done this I've gotten (maybe) 5 or 6 responses from those ISPs informing me that they have taken action against the spammer. In recent years however, I haven't gotten any responses. Are the ISP's so overwhelmed with abuse reports that they aren't able to respond to the spam reports? Do they even bother acting on said reports? Is there any real reason to report spammers?"
One big reason these days ISPs don't look seriously much into such "tip" about spammers is that, they end up troubling naive users. Remember for the past 5-6 years, spammers use Spam Bot to send spams. The international rates for an ad ware/spy ware victim computer is even $10 (ie., you can command a computer to send spam for $10).
If you are an average Joe six pack, I m sure you would have been attacked by spy ware several times. Your system in most such cases would be a spam transmitter, doing the rudimentary job of sending spam, attacking other vulnerable computers..yada yada...
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One big reason these days ISPs don't look seriously much into such "tip" about spammers is that, they end up troubling naive users. Remember for the past 5-6 years, spammers use Spam Bot to send spams. The international rates for an ad ware/spy ware victim computer is even $10 (ie., you can command a computer to send spam for $10).
If you are an average Joe six pack, I m sure you would have been attacked by spy ware several times. Your system in most such cases would be a spam transmitter, doing the rudimentary job of sending spam, attacking other vulnerable computers..yada yada...
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