RE: Spam email tool

From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] (suemvp_at_outlookcode.com)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:47:05 -0800

Given that the headers on most spam messages do not provide information about
the real sender, all this would do would be to harm the innocent bystanders
whose addresses have been harvested by spammers and are now being used to
spoof the sender address. 

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
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     Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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"p27andle" wrote:
> Include a tool to automatically deal with Spam email (eg a wizard).
> 
> This might include the previous suggestions to allow you to include specific 
> text as part of a rule.
> 
> But the main purpose would be to analyse the email and create a notify email 
> to ISP's et alia that their members are sending SPAM. It would automatically 
> include the headers, rather than requiring a newbee to do the following:
> 
> *********************************************************
> In Outlook, right-click the suspicious message you want to report, and then 
> click Options on the shortcut menu. 
> To copy the full headers, right-click inside the Internet headers box, and 
> then click Select All on the shortcut menu. 
> To copy the full header, press CTRL+C, and then click Close. 
> Open a new message, and type the e-mail address of the company to whom you 
> are reporting the problem message — for example, 
> reportphishing@antiphishing.org. 
> If Microsoft Word is your e-mail editor, click the down arrow  next to 
> Insert File  , and then click Item. If Microsoft Word is not your e-mail 
> editor, on the Insert menu, click Item. 
> Click the message you want to report, and then click OK. This attaches the 
> problem message to the new message. 
> In the Subject line, type I am reporting suspicious email, or whatever you 
> think is best to describe what you are doing. 
> In the body of the new message, to paste the header you copied in step 3, 
> press CTRL+V. 
> Click Send. 
> *****************************************************
> 
> And it would contain an email list of people to notify (eg the source picked 
> out of the headers) and allow the user to pick from the suppliers of any 
> likely email addresses included in the text.
> 
> Finally, it would add the sender to the Junk email sender's list and move 
> the email to the deleted folder.