Like email? Hate email? Tired of spam, phishing, and scams?

It takes an email box or a mobile phone to perform a lot of the scams, spams, and phishing on the Internet. For years, I’ve taken the steps to report identifiable fraud to Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live/Hotmail, and dozens of other ISPs. One forwards these types of mail to ‘abuse@(name of ISP)’. Some respond. Most don’t. I don’t think they care that they’re the transport for 419, lotto, and user information phish fraud.

They don’t react because it costs money to have people deal with the problem, but they’ve become an attractive nuisance in my estimation. What needs to appear is a monitored mailbox called ’419@’ to permit ISP mail abuse personnel to concentrate efforts where public protection merits it. Spam and nuisance complaints take low priority– and fraud must take a higher one. A mandated message to the complainer and action within 24hrs would drop fraud problems rapidly. RFC, anyone?