Monday, September 12, 2005

Child Pr0n


I received an email from a friend wondering how to stop receiving child pr0n in his email.
Here is my response.

Emails for child porn probably are not targeted to you personally, rather your email address would have been harvested somewhere and sold or stolen by some unscrupulous operators. These then send spam mails (junk mail) to everybody on their lists.
Odds are it isn't actually child porn anyway. A lot of porn on the internet is not actually real but fake and often not what it is purported to be - eg "Jessica Simpson in orgy". Odds are its not her - if it is then its probably a headshot that has been cut and pasted into another photo.

The best thing to do is to ignore it, train your junk mail filter to catch it and delete it. Do not reply to it or use the unsubscribe feature (if offered) as this simply alerts them that the email address is real.


Posted by: Jethro | 5:35 PM |