How to find someone...

[beavereater]

I have never had problems with spam in my email. Unfortunately, I recently placed an add in a local paper looking for teachers. Since then I've been swamped with virus attached emails "Your files" "Re:important" all that crap...

Anyway, I was just wondering, can anyone think of any email to REPLY to them that would scare the piss out of whom ever is sending this crap. Something like "You've attempted to corrupt our network with a virus. Malicious acts are illegal and there is zero tolerance. You will have 24 hours to blah blah"

Or do these senders even bother with looking at replies. I just don't get it!!

[fmctm1sw]

Replying is tough. A lot of real hackers hijack someone elses computer and send mail or spoof an email address. The person who sent it may not even know it came from their computer.

[beavereater]

The thing is, I got 3 emails in a row from the same email address, and its and its coming from someones telephone text messenging system. Is that still possible to spoof!? Or highjack!?

[The village idiot]

Every email address can be spoofed.

[thecoalman]

I get a lot of Returned mail that "I sent" that was returned because it had a virus in it. Even had one guy bitching at me until I explained to him why I wasn't responsible. I'd suggest not replying. Reply address means nothing, give me y6our e-mail addres and I'll send you a e-mail so you can reply to yourself. j/k

[beavereater]

DOesnt that just suck...I had a friend kind come up with some scary email about how we sent it with a tracker so that we could find their location, and not to attempt contact with us, or an other source as this would cause more harm than good...blah blah!! Anyway, since sending the email, no mail from THAT person...got like 4 in 30 minutes from the same address....

[flaninacupboard]

even if it's a real address, replying to them just lets them know they have a valid address