SPAM from Congressman George Holding 13th District (Teabagger)

[Triana]

I received my first/only ever email from this creepazoid's office today. I NEVER signed up to be on its mailing list nor any other list related to it. Of course there's an option to unsubscribe. I tried that and got:

You are not subscribed to the NEWSLETTER-113-NC13 list under the address
your message came from ([e-mail]).

No entry for your [e-mail] address could be found on the
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I REPLIED TO THE MESSAGE AND GOT THIS:

The original message was received at Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:36:09 -0500
from gemini.house.gov [143.228.150.167]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[e-mail]>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 <[e-mail]>... User unknown)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to ls1.house.gov.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 <[e-mail]>... User unknown
550 5.1.1 <[e-mail]>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; [e-mail]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; ls1.house.gov
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <[e-mail]>... User unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:36:14 -0500

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VERY. INTERESTINK. how Teabaggers RAM their UNSOLICITED UNWANTED propaganda into people's email inboxes and then refuse to stop - and do so from "unknown" servers.


The turd whined about "excessive spending" and "big guvmint" and about wanting to CUT TAXES more and STOP ALL GOV'T REGULATION as typical ignorant teabaggers do. "Free markets" and all that shit. Typical Teabagger spew.

I marked it as spam. Because it IS. SPAM. I never asked for it and am unable to get off of their goddamned list.

[defacto7]

1. Careful. Sometimes unsubscribing actually

confirms your email address as being valid and you end up on more lists. The best is to ignore unless you have your own mail server which gives you a couple more options.

If you are interested, work backward on the domain part of the email using a browser on an anonymous proxy site. See where you end up. You can also do some searching on the domain name or ip addresses that were included in the header of the original email. That may or may not give you more detail on the abuser but sometimes it's interesting to see if there's anything to learn about them. That's the simple way to see who it is, but it can also be forged info.