Prototype Abuse Report Document

As a prototype report, information shown is for illustration purposes only and may not represent actual spamming activity.

Method: HTML Technology

Pros
No need to create a new reporting method.
Easy to automate.
Extensible to handle new situations.
Cons
Can't put an HTML spam in the body of an HTML document.
Reporters need to learn HTML to send complaints.

Sample Report (Source Code)

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<META NAME="abuse" CONTENT="email">
<META NAME="involved" CONTENT="optonline.net">
<META NAME="proof" CONTENT="Received: from default (ool-18bbddd8.dyn.optonline.net [24.187.221.216])">

<META NAME="abuse" CONTENT="website">
<META NAME="involved" CONTENT="freehostchina.com">
<META NAME="proof" CONTENT="http://www.freehostchina.com/spamcustomer/hotscam/">

<META NAME="abuse" CONTENT="implicated">
<META NAME="involved" CONTENT="proflowers.com">
<META NAME="proof" CONTENT="http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=NnuC6.174938%24GV2.41297751%40typhoon.san.rr.com">

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<H1>Abuse Report</H1>

<PRE>
Return-Path: <Paulyherbs@aol.com>
Received: from mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.45])
        by tmisnet.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4VDP8l92116
        for <strads@tmisnet.com>; Fri, 31 May 2002 06:25:08 -0700 (PDT)
        (envelope-from Paulyherbs@aol.com)
Received: from default (ool-18bbddd8.dyn.optonline.net [24.187.221.216])
 by mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
 (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000))
 with SMTP id <0GWZ006V099D26@mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for strads@tmisnet.com;
 Fri, 31 May 2002 09:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
Date-warning: Date header was inserted by mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
From: Pauly Anzalone <Paulyherbs@aol.com>
Subject: The Rat Race
To: strads@tmisnet.com
Message-id: <003701c208ad$8db7e9c0$d8ddbb18@default>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-UIDL: Q2^"!jl*#!/Af!!E30!!


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Click The Link Above if its blue. If its not copy and paste it into you're web browser. 



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</PRE>

</BODY>
</HTML>