[Scspamcop] Re: low importance - anyone know what this spammer is peddling?

[Miss Betsy]

"jg" <connyank at cox.net> wrote in message 
news:f9674h$rtq$1 at news.spamcop.net...
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>> The scam message included a Gmail address. A good thing to do with such
>> addresses is to report them to Gmail, so that they can be deactivated.
>>
>> https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security2
>
> does that work??
>
>>
>> For Yahoo addresses, report them here
>>
>> http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_spam_intl
>
> does that work #2 ( with a Ha, you kidding?)?
>
> The non-action of both of the above is just about legendary (6 months on
> the net is legendary)...

You can tell if it worked by sending an email to that address.  I have never 
bothered (if it does work, I want my email to come from an email address I 
don't use and I don't want to bother setting one up) though I get auto 
responses that seem to indicate that they will deactivate the email address. 
The problem is that it is so easy to create a new one - if you are doing it 
for money, not confirmation.

Miss Betsy