Got a spam message, which admin do I forward this to?

[jr2]

Hi guys,
haven't been around lately, but I just got a spam e-mail from someone who claimed to have gotten my address from your forum member list.  A knockoff of one of those Nigerian scam things.  Who do I forward the e-mail to?  Or do you want me to just post it with its headers here?  Or is there nothing to be done about it?  Thanks,
jr2

[David]

Your email address is public in your profile.
If its on the web, spammers will find it.

[Bomb]

Just don't respond. They'll lose interest.

If you want to be really evil, you can run cat /dev/random > passport.jpg and send passport.jpg to them. They won't be able to open it, but that's not your problem, now is it?

[Rocinante]

If'n you're gonna try to do something evil with Unix commands, at least do the command proper:

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dd if=/dev/random of=passport.jpg bs=512 count=2048

'cat' will never finish, since /dev/random is always replenished (same as /dev/zero)

[Bomb]

Hmm, I guess I forgot to add "let it run for a minute and then hit ^C". Thanks for the command.

[EDIT] I was bored, so I made a shell script that does this for you and uploaded it to my website. make_big_file.sh

[kevlarman]

If'n you're gonna try to do something evil with Unix commands, at least do the command proper:

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dd if=/dev/random of=passport.jpg bs=512 count=2048

'cat' will never finish, since /dev/random is always replenished (same as /dev/zero)

if you want to make a file that big, you'll want to use /dev/urandom, since /dev/random only has ~4kb of entropy* in it most of the time, and will block after it runs empty until it's refilled.
*on linux systems, freebsd and possibly others linx /dev/random to /dev/urandom

[Bissig]

Use the options given to you by these forums to not publicly show your emailadress. Doing that should be common sense.

[jr2]

Thanks guys.  =]

[your face]

Use the options given to you by these forums to not publicly show your emailadress. Doing that should be common sense.

They all go to my bulk folder, all you gotta do is empty it, or wait a week or two for them to magically vanish.

[khalsa]

See here.