I sent an MMF spam to the IRS net-abuse address and got the auto-response
(with some improvements in wording from what I quoted yesterday). I sent
the author (who also created the server) an excerpt and asked for
clarification. Here is that clarification:
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Auto:
I'm asking for your help in being more selective in your referrals. I can't
do anything about SPAM, UCE or pyramid schemes so please don't forward them
here. You are welcome to report instances of off-shore money laundering,
"cheat the IRS" type UCE mailings and anything dealing with "hate mail"
directed towards the IRS and its employees.
Query:
There was a Web page that said "forward to the IRS anything that claims
someone has made a huge sum of money." Should I tell anyone that asks
that it should now be restricted to ONLY the above three items? Or are
there a few other categories that you would like to receive? Any other
guidelines I can pass on to reduce what you guys have to read?
Answer:
Yes, to put it in your words, we are getting a zillion messages. I want to
limit the message to the above in hopes it will reduce the messages to a
reasonable limit. If even that doesn't work, the next move will be to kill
the list altogether... :(
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Summary:
Use net-abuse(_at_)nocs(_dot_)insp(_dot_)irs(_dot_)gov to report USA-related
* off-shore money laundering,
* "cheat the IRS" type UCE mailings
* "hate mail" directed at IRS and its employees
and nothing else.