Under age girls

[Lonnie]

Hi, like everyone else, I get my share of porn emails, and generally, I just delete them, but today, I got one advertising underage girls, along with the persons email address, this worried me, so I got onto the local Police station, who put me onto the intelligence unit, they responded by just telling me to delete it, and thats it. Is this the normal procedure?.

[mimififi]

I couldn't possibly comment on normal, or abnormal police procedures, but maybe they are already onto this case and so were not surprised at all.

How awful for you though, what a nasty email to get, and good for you for following it up.

[theren_911]

It's probably very common and very likely to be untraceable. Anyone sending those types of spam will be behind ALOT of proxies, unless they're VERY stupid.

Delete them, don't even open them. Or report as spam for your ISP.

[sholay]

It could have actually been from the police - set up to catch any perverts who reply.

[ermintrude35]

...my neighbour had something similar sent to him, the police even came round to his house to look at the computer, I think it's probably something to do with where you live, we are in a rural low crime area, guess they didn't have much to do that day...

[natalie_1982]

I am surprised that they just asked you to delete it. As for Sholay's comment - surely that's entrapment?

Also, I would have thought that if there was an email address, the police could have posed as a perso who is interested and gain more information that way, perhaps arranging a meet, etc. I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be entrapment because they are contacting you and advertising themselves, not you provoking a reaction/ response.

I would definitely call the Police again and ask them why they asked you to delete it and that's all. Well done to you for doing somethng about it though and not just deleting it.

[spanner7853]

<PRE>i would be very careful with this. an old friend has just been arrested and now going to court over the same sort of thing. said it was pop ups etc and now he may end up with a custodial sentance. the poloce took away his computer as although he had deleted it all it was still in the memory of his computer.</PRE>

[maggie01]

No wonder people don't bother to report things if you don't feel it was taken seriously enough

[Scarlett]

You wanna try AOL. I never get porn now. They have strict spam systems.

[jake-the-peg]

Almost all spam of this type is sent from compromised systems and what you're seeing as an email address is fake.

The police intelligence unit know this.

To acurately trace it back from where it actually came from rather than where the mail "says" it came from you'd probably have to get a warrant to get the data logs from 2 or 3 ISPs - some probably foreign and you'd end up at some machine infected with a trojan acting as a robot picking up and sending mails.

If you then somehow managed to find who was controlling them it'd probably be a Russian outfit and you'd have a ton of trouble trying to do anything about it.

Something like 75% of Emails on the internet are reckoned to be spam - your ISP probably stops 90% of it from reaching you so your mail is quite literally a drop in the ocean.

That doesn't mean they're not working on the problem, they just approach it from a dfferent angle.

But if you ever get one with something concrete like a UK phone number I'm sure they'll take a real interest

Best advice don't even open spam

[Lonnie]

Thanks for your answers guys, I won't answer individually, but i'll give you my thoughts on this, and hopefully i'll cover the points you've all made.

If this email had said 'Young Girls', i'd have just deleted it, and thought no more of it, but it said 'underage girls', got to admit, it stopped me in my tracks, its the first i'd ever had that said that.

Obviously, various thoughts crossed my mind, from the police trying an entrapment, to, this person has to be stopped.

The email said that this person couldn't link directly to these sites, but gave his/her email address, which was a UK one, I never clicked on it to find out if it was genuine or not, but I did expect the Police to do more.

In between my original post and now, I got back to them, spoke to a different person, and he said, it was just a spam, and anyway, they hadn't the resources to investigate every one that was reported, i've must say that I was disgusted with this, as at the very least, they could have taken the email address, and tried it themselves.

[Jennykins]

Hi loonie, I know this thread is old now but I remember reading it and thinking how aweful the things that are going on to girls on the internet.. Tonight when I was watching TV there was a add telling people if they see any under age internet porn to go to this web site.. its

www.cybertip.ca and it can be reported there.. It may be a canadian based site but it will do its job all around the world.. Take care loonie and thanks for bringing this aweful problem to everybodys attion...

JEN

[Lonnie]

Hi Jennykins, thanks for that, and i'll take it that your misspelling of my name was just that, a mispel.

[Jennykins]

Lonnie. haha Im so sorry... I did mispel your name .. sorry... JEN

[Lonnie]

okey dokey Jennykins, your forgiven, I never did think it was intentional, but its nice to be sure, and nice of you to say so.

Ps, i'm one of your fans.

[huge piles]

i too am extremely surprised that that the police just told you to delete it... they have projects that span weeks, months and years, trying to catch those folk, but they could just have asked you to forward it to them... woulda take less than a minute to check it out...

[Lonnie]

Too true huge piles, I would have thought, at the very least, they could have taken that email address over the phone, and checked it out, it was a UK one.

[huge piles]

try reporting to these guys:

http://www.cybertip.ca/en/cybertip/

believe they are canada based, but deal worldwide they say... hopefully they'll take you more seriously... let us all know how you get on...

cheers

huge

[Lonnie]

Thanks Huge, its deleted now, but if it happens again, i've kept both yours and jennykins web addresses.