[Reader-list] Re: Reader-list digest, Vol 1 #154 - 2 msgs - URGENT WARNING

[Boud Roukema]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jo and Tarun wrote:

> Please note that the message from Nigeria in the last
> digest is part of a well-known scam which has

The latest version of spam-bouncer - GPL free source software which
has very sophisticated filtering of spam - has a file sb-fraud.rc for
dealing with earlier versions of Nigerian spam (but it failed to stop
this one - only my personal "formula" used with spam-bouncer caught
it).

I would recommend 

http://www.spambouncer.org

for anyone who gets a lot of spam and is willing to spend a bit of
time thinking (ouch!) when installing. Don't fiddle with mail software
lightly...  Any system administrator (or mailing list manager?) should
at least spend some time looking at it.

There are all sorts of keyword based and IP address based formulae
for "definite spam" and "suspected spam". 

You can have options such as just storing spam in a separate folder,
deleting it, sending an automatic bounce which makes the spammer think
your address is wrong, and sending an automatic complaint to the
postmaster.

In the latest version with sb-fraud.rc, there is even an automatic
complaint (if you have the complaint option validated) to an address
in the USA to police who are tracking this particular fraud group!