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You are here likely due to someone abusing your ad you posted to our POZ Personals. I have done as much in my power to stop it (no emails are available online now), all browsers of ads must use a form now to contact you (why you see the link to http://www.hivdate.com/spam/ in your reply). I am listing some ways below for you to fight back SPAM and solicitated emails. My dating is site is strictly for meeting for the purpose of dating or pen pals, not for business and scamming people.
We must fight back! I suggest you at least forward (cc:) the spam to UCE@FTC.GOV so the spam gets included in the Consumer Sentinel law enforcement database.
REPORT FAKE CURES AND SCAM HERBAL CURES HERE!
These www.HIVdate.com personals were not meant to be abused! The best way to deal with these "spammers" is to report them to the email provider they are using, for instance: if the advertisement or money begging came from GiveMeADollar@AOL.com, report the "spam" to abuse@aol.com (and forward the original email). If the email came from TransferFunds@Yahoo.com , then report the email (and forward the original email) to abuse@yahoo.com. See the pattern?
You can also report the persons IP address (an identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network, every computer has a different one) to the abusers ISP (internet service provider). All (97%) ISPs in the world forbid their members to send spam, this can possibly result in the abuser to loose their internet access account and cause them grief if you report them. You can get the IP address of the abuser once he/she has emailed you from their email account (not through the form responder for your personal ad, it will show my IP from emails sent through my website) by viewing the properties of the email and then viewing the message source (also you may see the ISP domain here, ex: AOL.com), more info here. Easiest way to complain to a spammer's ISP is to use the services of a website called SpamCop.net. If you tell DaveyBoy about this abuse the same day it happened, he can possibly give you the IP address where you can then search the full IP address to find out who the ISP is for the user in the form below:.
Also, many emailers use free email accounts to abuse the internet. Say their email is Spammer@FreeEmail.com, well goto www.FreeEmail.com and seek out their "Contact Us" link and report the abuse of their system and the abuser just may loose his/her email account! What's the point of spamming if they loose all their email accounts?
If the abusers is using his own domain name and email system, you can do a domain lookup (form below this paragraph) and find out the owners information (address, telephone, etc, example) for reporting to your local (or the abusers local) Better Business Bureau (scams or spam). Also in this domain lookup, you will find out their NS (name server) domains (usually free Domain Name Services) where you can now look up that service domain info or goto their website and report the abuser, they just may loose their website! Even find out who sold them the domain and tell them about the abuse, they just may not be alowed to buy domains again!
Forward your spam/scams to uce@ftc.gov (FTC is an agency of the U.S. government that is responsible for enforcing a variety of consumer protection laws) directly to the Federal Trade Commission so that they can continue to try to stop the spam before it gets to others. You can also file a report with the FTC through an online form regarding businesses and their ways of doing business here.
The FBI has a FBI Tips and Public Leads online form which you can use to report scams, frauds, suspicious activity, or other types of crime
Someone pretending to be you? Report Identity Theft to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Do not reply to the senders of these emails. Avoid emails that state they need your bank account to transfer large amounts of money, selling herbs and remedies, begging for money, stating they will visit if you send a bus ticket, etc. Go with your gut feelings! If an email seems weird, just ignore it or try to report it!
Why did I get email from HIVdate.com? HOW DID MY AD GET ON HIVDATE.COM? You did not place this ad? Maybe it was placed as a J0KE, not a good one obviously. Contact DaveyBoy to remove your ad. Because HIVdate.com is a big thorn in spammers' sides, they will often try to cause trouble by sending out spam which appears to be from one of DaveyBoy's websites, but which is actually not. Because most of an email can be forged (including who it is "from"), spammers can send email from addresses @HIVdate.com in an attempt to discredit DaveyBoy. I even have a Positive Singles site (paid site) emailing my members (why I remade it so you need to fill a form to contact members, no attachments) viruses to make my services unsafe. I have had a few incidences where other HIV/AIDS website owners have tried to ruin me. Fit of jealousy?
Links:
Reading Email Headers
How to Interpret Email Headers
IP/DNS Lookup
List of general REPORT SPAM web sites
Find who to report to using domain
Antispam.ru
Spam Cop
is a web-based system that attempts to diagnose where an unwanted message came from and send off complaints.Reporting e-mail abuse or here
DON'T EVER BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN SPAM! The reason that people spam is due to a few people actually buying into the schemes. They make money, like all advertisers, by convincing people to buy a product or service. If no one buys into these things, companies will quit paying spammers to advertise their products.
Law/Legal Links:
www.SpamLaws.com
American Laws and where to report
Canada
, United States, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Yugoslav, Russia, India, Czech Republic, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, Europe and NorwayJapan Today: Law on Unsolicited Email Takes Effect
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