Most of the time it's fairly harmless stuff - lots of pharmaceutical aids to a short and happy life, a fake designer watch or two and the odd offer of a life-changing degree from a non-existent university make up my normal daily spam sandwich - that isn't worth reporting to any one of the many places that it can be reported to. Sometimes, though, spam arrives that is so fundamentally unpleasant that it needs to reported to the proper authority as soon as possible.
On Tuesday last, and for the first time ever, I received an e-mail advertising internet pornography. One of the items on offer - and it was only one item on a very lengthy list - was 'underage sex', for which, of course, read 'child abuse'. I've had five similar messages since so 'Metliss Barfield' is obviously on somebody's list somewhere.
I reported the original e-mail immediately to the Internet Watch Foundation by filling in their on-line form, and received a swift acknowledgement full of good advice as to what to do should you receive something like this - or even, alas, other things that seemed to be me to be even worse.
Reporting this e-mail took seconds. If you receive one like it, please take a few seconds to make a report. I realise that it is easier to dump the e-mail in the trash and try to forget about it, but that isn't going to make the internet (or in fact the real world) a safer place for children or other vulnerable individuals.
Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com
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