Roger became the victim of a porn spam register – receiving 5 spam porn emails within a minute.
Roger was able to track down the sender email address, and replied politely asking the spammer to stop.
The spammer replied that there was nothing he could do and followed up with 10 more porn spam emails.
Frustrated, Roger created a re-direct command in his email, so that whenever the spammer sent an email to Roger, the spammer would receive the email back 100 times.
This added fuel to the spammer’s fire, who then sent Roger spam porn to every email account and online profile he could.
At this point, Roger needed to take it one step further to make this guy stop.
Rodger found the name and email address of the spammer’s personal account, along with his wife, daughter, and grandparents.
Roger emailed the spammer and advised if he was to receive another email, he would send 100 copies of it to his family’s accounts.
It worked – Roger didn’t received another spam email from the hacker and even received a response advising that it may take a couple of days for Roger’s name to be taken off of other lists beyond his control.
Roger was elated – and took to an InfoWorld column to share his victory with the late Ed Foster to share his novel way of stopping spam attacks.
It was Ed Foster who grounded Roger, reminding him that threats to send spam to the perpetrator’s daughter, raised some ethical and perhaps legal issues.