Email Stock Fraud

[minnesotadon]

Like circuitbenders, my web site is being abused by a spammer who forges my email address into broadcasts that are part of a stock "pump and dump" scheme.  You can read more about this scheme here: http://www.donwright.com/stockfraud/

As a result, I get dozens of automatic "no such address" or "spam rejected" backscatter messages every time the spammer does a broadcast, which is twice a week or more.

One small way that we can fight back it to post links to each others' anti-spam pages, so that the search engines will rank our pages more highly and crawl them more often.  I have posted www.circuitbenders.co.uk on my anti-spam page, as another victim of the spammers.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Don

[Circuitbenders]

To be honest i've read a lot of stuff on the net from people who have tried to do something about these bastards and nobody appears to have got anywhere, either with tracking them down or reporting them to any law enforcement agency or stock exchange. A lot of people seem have put in a lot of time and effort trying to do something about this and have just been ignored

The amount of bounces we're getting seems to have slowed right down over the last week or so from about 80 a day down to about 20-30. I'm more concerned about the 150 or so spam mails we seem to be getting every day from hotbox.com addresses offering viagra etc 

We don't actually have an antispam page as such but i've listed links to your page and others here:
http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=61.msg513#msg513

I did read somewhere that someone got spammers to stop using his domain simply by threatening to change his IP to that of the US army in a kind of last desparate 'if i'm going down i'm taking you with me' type move. I'm not entirely sure how that works out though....................