I agree - still difficult to tell and very easy to spoof a valid e-mail address.

You may have just knocked over a completely innocent ISP's mail server causing an outage to quite a lot of people.

This stuff annoys the pish out of me too and it's quite easy to lash out with DDoS attacks or whatever but you need to do more digging to make sure you definitely have the right people.

Both the original mail that i have mailed him on and the paypal mail orginate from thew same ip. And its looks like it has aslo been on the orbs blacklist as well, so I quired the ip address and it is a vpop server so I would guess he is hosting it himself and using the multi domian function in vpop for the different domain names.

I will always do my homework as I know what kind of trouble it causes.

Hi again.

another note I have just reported him to the ISP that issued him his address as the T&C for his ISP state "Any illegal internet activity will result in an instant stop to your account" So I have forwarded the emails to them.

Fair enough - for me though not knowing for sure that the vpop server was his or not would have stopped me.

You certainly investigated more than most though, I'll give you that!

...and now we're into the realms of zombie machines!

I've just had a mail attack on one of my client sites and I now have a list of thousands of IP addresses that these attacks were launched from. I would expect that ALL of these machines were quite innocent, but being controlled from a remote source.

To be honest, what you've just done is likely to get your account pulled too and as TP says it's not a very responsible thing to do.

The only way to be more sure is to A. Ask him lol B. Hack it which makes me as bad as him.

Exactly!

But you've already done that by running your bash script no? I'm sure your ISP T's&C's cover that.

Sorry I don't mean to be anal about it, like I said it pishes me off too, but you need to be careful about what you do with it.

I'm certainly not qualified to be standing on this soapbox so I'll get off it now! Apologies!

Probably not a responsible thing to do with hind site but someone has to do somthing now and again. How would you have felt if you or your familly had been riped off by this guy. Ebay and Pay-Pal send you the standard auto responce all they care about is getting your money. Belive me revenge isnt a good thing but I get so angry when people take the **** and spoil it for the good people out there.

TP hence running the script for an unlogged server in canada and nohup'in it.

I was a bad person when I was younger, I'm no angel now but I'm trying to be good I promise.