Ick.

[kengr]

The other day the *abuse* address for my domain got the most *amazing* piece of spam I've ever seen.

Somebody actually sent it a message offering to sell child porn.

I just finished reporting it to (took me a bit to find a "best guess" as to *where* to report it.

Getting it was icky. But having it sent to the *abuse* address of my domain? Either it's an incredibly *stupid* spammer, or it's an attempt to frame or entrap someone. A badly done one.

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[brockulfsen.livejournal.com]

Contact your elected representative's office.

Ask them to give you their best guess where to report it to.

Follow through.

[kengr]

Googling:
reporting child porn

got me the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children site (actually it got me a US government site that pointed me there).

After a bit of head scratching, I figured out which blanks on the form to fill with what.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

It continually amazes me that people make money selling porn on the internet, a business plan akin to selling sand in the Sahara or snow in Antarctica.

Perhaps it was a more complicated scheme? For example, a phishing expedition to see if an address actually connected to a human, by pinging it with something that should provoke a response?

No, I don't get it either.

[kengr]

My first guess was somebody trying to run a sting (badly). Second is somebody trying to frame me, except I never use that address, it only exists because it's one of the "standard" addresses every domain should have.