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I am really Getting Tired of this Spammer.

Let's do something about it!  Read the letter below.  If you agree, fill in your name and e-mail address and press send.  It will send a copy to the Federal Trade Commission UCE complaint e-mail address.  I figure if they get a few thousand messages they might actually shut this guy down.

Here's some info about the FTC's Spam Complaint service

Dear Federal Trade Commission:

I am the webmaster of a small web site hosting business in Edison, NJ. I
have many domains located on my equipment, many of which I am webmaster for.
This means I have dozens of e-mail addresses where I accept mail for my
clients.

Unfortunately this also means I get a great deal of SPAM mail or UCE mail.
It is annoying, but I put up with it as part of being a member of the
Internet community. I do my best to report these people to their service
providers and any one else who can stop these idiots from clogging my
mailbox.

The mail is annoying, but more annoying is the fact that these people steal
services from ISP's like me. They look for mail servers that do not require
authentication. Then they use their computer to send mail from that ISP's
system. This means that these people are stealing bandwidth from small
companies that are trying to provide a service to paying customers -- people
who want to have access to the Internet or people that want to publish
information on the Internet.

Additionally, they reference false domains in their "reply-to" address,
causing people who do not know better to complain to the wrong people. In
some cases the "reply-to" address causes bounced e-mail messages to return
to the system administration account of the domain listed in the "reply-to"
field. This wastes more bandwidth and disk space on the innocent ISP's
equipment.

I don't normally write you about these things. I believe that you deal with
these issues every day.

This time I take exception. The attached e-mail is from Benchmark Print
Supply. I have received literally dozens of mail messages from them on the
many different accounts that I administer. They are being very clever in
creating their messages by using many different ISP's and many different
"bounce" methods to conceal their tracks.

I encourage you to contact them as soon as possible about this issue. A
search of the using the following query will show you that they have been at
this for some time and they seem to be very brazen about it, posting their
messages to newsgroups, bulletin boards and other Internet communication
services:

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&kl=XX&q=%22benchmark+print+supply%22&search=Search

Please stop this guy. Apparently some of my friends on the Internet have
identified him as:

Sam Khuri
1091 Redstone Lane
Dunwoody, GA 30338-2637
Home number: (770) 512-0511

Thanks for your help.


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>BENCHMARK PRINT SUPPLY
>1091 REDSTONE LANE
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