The Final Straw

The Spam

This is the email including headers:
It's classic stuff.
Someone on a dial-up connection to dialinx.net (Genuity), forging a Yahoo address and abusing a service in Belgium to spamvertise a website.

Spammers are sociopaths. They have a complete contempt for society, for other people's resources. They will happily abuse an improperly protected mailserver in a hospital, a school or a business. They spew millions of unwanted emails at no cost to themselves.

People with whom I have discussed this spam were universally disgusted by it. None of them were surprised by it.

Like most spams, the email does not in itself identify the spammer, SO:
Who are the spammers?

Return-Path: expressrelieffund2001@yahoo.com
From: expressrelieffund2001@yahoo.com
Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132])
by <munged> with ESMTP id FAA18300
for <munged>; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from deadbert.skynet.be (deadbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.52])
by riker.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.12) with ESMTP id f8CCSGS04953;
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:28:16 +0200 (MET DST)
(envelope-from <expressrelieffund2001@yahoo.com>)
Received: from wilo.wilo.be (217-136-254-46.skynet.be [217.136.254.46] (may be forged))
by deadbert.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f8CCT4D02107;
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:29:04 +0200 (MET DST)
Received: from 4.54.224.116 (PPPa55-ResaleOmaha1-1R7240.dialinx.net [4.54.224.116]) by wilo.wilo.be with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21)
id SWXYA87Z; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:27:48 +0200
Message-ID: <0000083d7d5e$00007308$00001155@>
To: <Undisclosed.Recipients@deadbert.skynet.be>
Subject: Help for the Red Cross and the victims of our Nations tragedy
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 04:23:53 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Reply-To: expressrelieffund2001@yahoo.com
X-Rcpt-To: <munged>
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Express Relief Fund.  
 
A combination of relief funds are available for you to send donations to.<=
br>
 
Red Cross:<a href=3D"http://www.freewebco.net/viacream/SurvivorFund.html">=
Click here</a> 
 
Victims Survivor Fund. This will go to a combination of victim survivor fu=
nds equally disbursed.  
<a href=3D"http://www.freewebco.net/viacream/SurvivorFund.html">Click here=
</a> 
 
 
Thank you for your help and support. 
 
 
expressrelieffund2001@yahoo.com
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Note: <munged> means that I have removed details of the particular one of my addresses to which the spam was sent.