sumarie Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Hi, I;m new to this forum; perhaps this has been answered elsewhere, but I can't seem to find anything on it. Occasionally I receive one of the "you've Won Yahoo Lottery" emails, which I promptly report to Spamcop and Yahoo. When I get the report back from SC, it is incomplete; i.e. there is no 'Send Report...' button at the bottom. This only seems to occur on this one particular email, even when it originates from many sources. Can anyone explain, help, or direct me to where its been discussed before? Thanks ever so! Sumarie Link in question: http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z781388140z36...917dce1255429az Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Hi, Link in question: http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z781388140z36...917dce1255429az 29886[/snapback] It may be intermittant problems that refreshing the report will repair OR it could be something has been fixed, but the link is currently giving me reports to: Report spam to: Re: 64.136.29.16 (Administrator of network where email originates) To: spamdesk<at>support.juno.com (Notes) Re: 64.136.29.16 (Third party interested in email source) To: Cyveillance spam collection (Notes) Re: http://rds.yahoo.com.l-lottery.l-prizes.php.l-2... (Administrator of network hosting website referenced in spam) To: spamdesk<at>support.juno.com (Notes) There is something funny going on in that the freeserve servers are trusted to provide the correct receive headers and those headers indocate the sender is internal to the freeserve network (10.x.x.x). Edit: Jeff G. munged the email addresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swingspacers Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Occasionally I receive one of the "you've Won Yahoo Lottery" emails, which I promptly report to Spamcop and Yahoo.29886[/snapback] Yahoo! is an innocent bystander with regard to these emails. Please do not report Yahoo! as a spamvertized website, although their URL is used in the spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G. Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 I feel that Yahoo! has the capability to limit the use of its redirector to authorized uses, such as those with Yahoo! URLs as referrers and those which redirect to Yahoo! URLs, that it also has the capability to stop its redirector from redirecting to certain spamvertized URLs, and that it should be notified of spamvertizing of its redirector so that it can block the redirection and take action against the spammers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swingspacers Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 I feel that Yahoo! has the capability to limit the use of its redirector to authorized uses, such as those with Yahoo! URLs as referrers and those which redirect to Yahoo! URLs, that it also has the capability to stop its redirector from redirecting to certain spamvertized URLs, and that it should be notified of spamvertizing of its redirector so that it can block the redirection and take action against the spammers.29891[/snapback] I agree about the use of the redirector. However, the reason why SpamCop wants to notify Yahoo! is this line: Sincerely, The Yahoo.com staff Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com This is clearly an unauthorized use of Yahoo!'s URL that Yahoo! cannot do anything about. This issue has already been appealed, so SpamCop will not send reports about it anymore, but generally I recommend that people do not report such unauthorized uses of URLs as spamvertized websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downstrike Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Yahoo! has some culpability in lending unwarranted credibility to this scam, by giving the appearance on their web site that they actually have a lottery. The title graphic at http://lottery.yahoo.com/ calls the site, "Yahoo! News Lottery". The alt attribute of the graphic simply says, "Yahoo! Lottery". This has been very misleading to some people trying to determine the validity of these messages, who do not follow state lotteries, and therefore do not recognize the content of this web site. Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agsteele Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 I've long thought that reporting of spamvertised URLs is exceedingly variable in its value. An example is the attmpt to 'phish' on the eBay and PayPal sites. Clearly these companies may find such reports helpful but in the end they get so many reports that the information becomes counter-productive. Hence eBay and PayPal now refuse reports on spamvertised URLs. In the past there have been incidents of entirely innocent bystanders having links including in the spammers' spew - presumably to create annoyance and to get SpamCop a bad reputation. For this reason I'm cautious about reporting URLs in Emails. In any case, the reports of spamvertised URLs do not add to the listing of the originating IP so do little to actually block incoming junk. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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