IF YOU DO TOO, HERE ARE WAYS TO STOP IT!
Free Speech advocates may as well not read any further.
I am an advocate of free speech until
and unless it puts children or others
in danger or invades my private home.
Unsolicited spam containing
lewd pictures and other offensive material invades my privacy and YOURS!
Don't let this filth continue!
A friend of mine wrote:
I had the unpleasant experience of receiving a spam for a kiddie
porn site,
and I had to ask around and do some research to learn where I could
turn in
these perverts. Here's what I learned if it ever happens to
you.
Someone suggested I check out SamSpade.org
and its free software for tracking
email to its real source as well as finding out the owner of specific
sites.
The software is only for Windows systems so my Mac and I couldn't
use it, but
I was able to paste the URL for the kiddie porn site into one of
their online
tools and got an incredible amount of information. I also
found out the site
used for the spam is owned by the same London-based company so forwarding
it
to their abuse address was worthless.
I also forwarded the email to uce@ftc.gov
to alert the Feds about these
sleezebags.
I then tried several search engines which promptly gave me links
to sites
with kiddie porn, not sites to report kiddie porn, so I tried Ask
Jeeves and
got the link to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They
had a link to missingkids.com
and a cyberspace crime reporting site.
The form I filled out was confusing so I hope I didn't report myself
as a
pervert. <G>
You may want to bookmark these links in case you ever receive filth
spam like
that or you become aware of a site aimed at luring children to harm.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children http://www.missingkids.com/
Sam Spade.org http://Samspade.org
Children's Protection & Advocacy Coalition http://www.thecpac.com/stop-it.html
AOL is setting up an Amber Alert site and system which appears to be open to non-AOL users. You may want to add that. One of the local tv stations has set up links to this information which you may want to check. Working for You http://www.wfmy.com
Children's Protection & Advocacy Coalition http://www.thecpac.com/stop-it.html
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