[Info-vax] Reporting spamer links on comp.os.vms to google.

[John E. Malmberg]

I notice that comp.os.vms has picked up a spammer going by Obaid that is 
posting between 1 and 3 spams a day for a web site.  The newsgroup 
headers state to report this to "X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse at google.com"

If you are using Thunderbird to read the info-vax mailing list or 
comp.os.vms newsgroup, it has a feature that can inconvenience such 
spammers.

If you right click on the displayed link, it will take you to a page for 
reporting phishing where you enter in a captcha and it will submit the 
site as a phishing site.

For non-firefox users, and for reporting malware sites, the following 
URLs can be used.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/

Google and Thunderbird state that this information is being shared with 
other companies so that attempts to visit the links will either be 
flagged or blocked depending on the what software the user has for 
browsing or security and if they try to reference the link turned up by 
a google search.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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