I need your advice and counsel . . .

I decided to ask advice here.

I just received an email which, since I use MailWasher, I'd have simply bounced and put the sender on the blacklist. The subject was "Special for [my email address]. I preview messages on the server with MailWasher, since I've bounced a few to friends and family accidently when they've forwarded stuff to me.

Here is the first part of it:

>This site is created specially for all fans of tiny little girls.
> Here the most juvenile kiddies and the most lewd photos!
> - Over 10.000 kiddy photos
> - Over 300 Mb illegal movies
> - Weekly updates and more..

Y'all, I'm mad. P.Oed, with a capital P. I want to do more than just stop it from coming to me. I want to track this crap to it's origin, and bring down the perverts who are perpetrating it.

It's more than "cleaning my mailbox."

Our children are under siege! If, in fact, they deliver on their promise, I'll find little ones whose innocense (I tried three times through tears to spell it right. Screw that! You know what I mean!) has been stolen.

I don't want to bounce this one. I want to backtrack, wade in the muck if necessary, and find these b*stards.

I'm downloading the email, as dirty as it makes me feel. I'm planning to contact every authority I can think of to ask for help, and to volunteer my services.

I'm asking you guys to give me whatever suggestions you have that can help me.

Please! No benign crap about accepting things I cannot change. I don't know who said it, but it went something like "all evil needs to flourish is for good men to do nothing."

I ain't a man. Been a woman all my life. And that's long enough to know that men act when women get mad enough to tell 'em to. And we let 'em think they came up with it. No problem. (No offense, guys. Y'all get stuff done. But if it's JUST men, civilization - Hell, PEOPLEDOM is finished. The first guy to have a baby . . .)

I like leaning on a strong, muscular shoulder. In fact, I need it. So we serve each other.

Now we need to serve our kids. I can't just let this pass.

Any ideas on how to go about it?

Marye

Hi Mary,

I agree with you, you should do SOMETHING. I agree that it's when nothing is done that people get away with doing (and continuing to do) this kind of abuse of our children.

At a minimum, I would forward the email to the police (with full headers). Hopefully someone else here will have further suggestions....

- Dien Rice

US Customs apparently has authority.

http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/enforcem/child.htm

This might be useful
http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/law3a.htm#Report
http://www.spamcon.org/recipients/spam-response/report-illegal.shtml

Some spammers will be as provocative as possible to pull traffic. Site may be "normal" ****.

Some try to get other sites/people in trouble.

Some will post a phone number to bait you to call even if to complain. These can redirect you out of the country to act like a 900 number and suck some large money out of you.

You don't necessarily have a real kiddie **** person. I wouldn't think they normally try to get too much attention. But who knows. Even if not, though, it's pretty sleazy.

Also, sometimes gov does stings to see what freaks respond.




US Customs

Thanks, I didn't think of that.

I DID remember a group I belong to, that got sick of the ignoramuses on the 'net a year or two after AOL put everybody and his mother in the mix.

I sent them a message, and I'm getting a lot of really good help!

I noticed the numeric notation. 10.000, instead of 10,000 as is the custom in the US. Maybe I can't do anything.

Or maybe I can infiltrate . . .

Life's gotta be about something, and to tell you the truth, once I walked away from my "profession," the only thing I've been really passionate about is bowling . . . until now.

Thanks to my some people I know, I've now got a name, Address, Admin contact, DNS servers, and a host of other information that someone with maliciousness in his/her heart could use to disrupt - er, provided one were of that bent. . .

Prudence can be a good thing. Don't make yourself a target of someone that's saying he's a criminal when the gov can handle it for you. Besides, they can do more permanent damage than you can. You can disrupt, but then they leave and start again. Doesn't really help.

...is this attempt by the libraries to help give it to our children.


I really hate the ACLU

Thanks Brian.

Check your email. I'm dying to know . . .