Spam related question

[scroots]

I recieved a piece of spam trying to sell norton system works at a knock down rate the site was dodgy, to prove it was spam the to address line didn`t have my address in it and it had a remove link. I looked up the domain name owner as the part of the site trying to sell these good was on a sub domain. I go to forward the email and i get a delivery notification return unknown reciept and it had a load of other stuff in it, the following it had in was:
(I have replaced the domain name owners email with domainnameower and the other strange email address with strangeemail.
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

domainnameower





Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:22:15 -0800

Final-Recipient: rfc822;domainnameower
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com
account (domainnameower) [-5] - mta588.mail.yahoo.com
0-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
250 HELP
.
te unsolicited bulk
220 e-mail sent from the internet.
transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
220 e-mail sent from the internet.

strangeemail>... Recipient ok
550 5.1.1 <strangeemail>... No such user
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
t>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail>... Recipient ok
250 2.1.5 <strangeemail

the so called domain name owner was a yahoo.com email address and there account didn`t exist. The strangemail address didn`t appear in the original spam.

I am intreged to understand what i have uncoverd.
anyone got any ideas?
also does anyone use excite.com email service as all my spam has fake headers and i could stop it all by just blocking the domain name excite.com

scroots

[Roy Sinclair]

See the Wired news article (http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57613,00.html) on spam that was just published. Most spammers out there are only interested in generating and selling email addresses to other spammers. It gives me hope that the collapse of the spamming industry will soon happen.

[scroots]

roy thanks for the link, it was some very interesting reading, i also hope spam stops one day.
we live in hope
scroots

[Feyd]

Considering that SPAM is illegal in the EU, and the FCC's continued push to bring spam under their domain, it is unlikely that it will ever be truly stopped, but certainly lessened. Also, with the advent of a national do-not call list for the US for telemarketers, stricter measures are on the way for SPAM specifically, but they will be a long time coming.

[scroots]

I recieved a piece of spam from a company that does marketing via email. Much to there pleasure i recieived it, currently after my email of complaint i have been removed from mailings. I never even registerd or responded to a link in an email saying i have registerd.

It was obvious they were breaking there privacy policy and wheeling and dealing information. In a response they assured me my that my name and address will never be disclosed to any third party.

I have set an ultimatium to find out where they got my addy from and what info they have on me.

mujhahahahhahaha i bet some customer service people **** themselves over it.

With there four page website i think they are running as a scam as i set up anopther hotmail account and subscribed to there service and have not had on mailing yet.

If i think they are running a scam what should i do?

scroots