Originally posted here by hypronix


Not a chance. They either use bots to create free addresses on providers of webmail, or using on-site software they can spoof IP addresses [I have used some Perl scripts that allow you to put in any address and it sends it as that address].

Only by reading headers and trying to trace IPs can one attempt to fight back. But it's not really worth it I think... Too much work, and no chance to stop it ever. The way I see it, sometimes in the future excesive quantities of spam will cause free webmail to become unavailable and even servers to crash due to overloading and the such...
So that was not really Britney Spears that emailed me.... RATS! (J/K)