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How to find out where Spams are coming from

   
  We all like to have a mailbox clean of spams. Fighting Spam is a losing battle.
There are TOO many websites out there that want you to enter your email address or your friend's email address for a useful purpose, then once you are on their list, you keep getting advertisements that are not relative to that website.
If you post your email address in plain view on a website, then any SpamCollector Robot can come by at any time and harvest your email address for other purposes.

Note 1: Any time you post your email address on Members.1USA.Com, your email addresses is protected behind the doors of our Membership System.
Note 2: All websites hosted by 1USA have their email addresses protected behind a database.


To have 1USA block spams that are coming into your @1USA.COM mailbox:
- right-click on the message and select Properties
- select Details
- Drag the header info of the message
- press Ctrl key and C key at the same time on the keyboard. This copies the lines of text onto the Clipboard.
Then open a new message and click into the large message area of a new email.
Press CTRL key and V key at the same time, which pastes the clipboard into the email message.
   
 
Here are the instructions, with pictures:
 
In your Outlook Express or chosen email software
- right-click on the message and select Properties


   
 
which brings up this window

  - select the Details tab (at the top)

   
 
Here are the message's headers

Notice that this email is
To: +cash man (not you)
was sent from a computer named gorgyy
via yahoo.com & blocked
via aol.com & blocked
via tampabay-RoadRunner.Com & blocked
via sparc.isl.net & blocked
via Eudoramail.com OR whatever computer was set to the fake IP address of 211.46.121.73 at the time

The sender says his email address is marketingright27167227n04@eudoramail.com, but it too can be faked.

So what from this message can be blocked to prevent future spams?
- Subject contains "free cash grants"
- anyone sending email from Eudoramail.com, maybe
- anyone sending emails from the IP address 211.46.121.73 but only after verifying that it is a dialup account, DSL account etc and is not a legitimate mail server.
   
 
- Drag the header info of the message

Hold down the mouse and drag.
On the keyboard, press and hold the CTRL key while pressing the C key.
This will copy the text to the clipboard.
(This is the standard Windows keyboard shortcut for Copy)
   
 
Then open a new message and click into the large message area of a new email.
Press CTRL key and V key at the same time, which pastes the clipboard into the email message.
(This is the standard Windows keyboard shortcut for Paste)
   
  then address the email to 1USA, and we'll look through the message headers to see if there is anything worth blocking.
Many of these spammers use different email accounts every day, try to send out from various IP addresses every day, try to echo off of Open Relay mail servers to hide their identity, and so forth.
The worst thing you can do is Reply to their spams and ask to be removed from their list.
Thieves have no honor, so what makes you think they will remove you?
  They will probably save your email address to a new "confirmed delivery" file.

1USA does the best it can. If you are still getting Spams, the other option is to have 1USA close the email account and create a new one for you - then don't type it in on any website other than 1USA's websites

BarryZ

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