Today morning I received a spam which originated from今天早上我收到的垃圾郵件源自 plaxo servers. It was interesting.服務器，這是有趣的。 Someone named Mr. Richard Milford felt he had my contact information on file and requested me to update it!有人命名先生理查德米爾福德認為他我的聯絡資料，檔案，並要求我更新！

the exerpt of the email:摘錄的電子郵件： 

 Angsuman,  I'm updating my address book.由Angsuman ，我更新我的通訊簿。 Please take a moment to update your latest contact information.請花點時間更新您的最新聯繫信息。 Your information is stored in my personal address book and will not be shared with anyone else.你的資料是儲存在我的個人通訊錄，並不會共享與其他任何人。 Plaxo is free, if you'd like to g ive it a try. plaxo是免費的，如果您想要克香港專業教育學院一試。 Thanks, Richard Milford感謝，理查德米爾福德

I never know anyone with that name.我從來不知道任何人使用該名稱。 Then I looked at the information然後我看到的資料
he had about me - my name & email address only!他曾約我-我的姓名或名稱及電子郵件地址僅！ Something you can一些你可以
easily find by a crawler from my website.不難發現，由履帶從我的網站。
And I have never和我從來沒有
contacted a mortage company in my life, nor have voluntarily given my接觸mortage公司在我的生活，也有自願放棄我
information to any.資訊給任何。

This was clearly a case of spam, a wilful disregard of這顯然是一個案件的垃圾郵件，故意漠視
the laws and using my resources without my consent.法律和使用我的資源，而沒有我的同意。

And he also gave me his contact information, see他也給了我他的聯繫信息，請參見
below.在…下面。
I felt this clearly required some action on my part,我認為這顯然需要一些行動，對我的一部分，
more than just instructing spambayes to treat it as spam.不止指示spambayes ，以把它當作垃圾郵件。 Also也
I am afraid if I do so, many genuine emails from plaxo may be我恐怕如果我這樣做，很多真正的電子郵件從plaxo可能
given similar treatment automatically.鑑於類似的待遇自動。

So I wrote a polite email所以我寫了禮貌的電子郵件
to abuse@plaxo.com as show below:以abuse@plaxo.com作為顯示如下： 

 Hi,   The email was sent to me through plaxo.com system by one of your member.您好，電子郵件發送給我通過plaxo.com系統之一，您的會員。 I do not know him, never heard of him.我不知道，他從未聽說過他。 Looking at his vCard I found he sells mortgage.看他的vCard我發現他出售按揭。 I have never contacted any mortgage agency in my life, nor have given my info to any.我從來沒有接觸過任何按揭機構在我的生活，也沒有給我任何信息。 This is clearly a spam and in violation of our company policy and as I verified it is also in violation of your policies.這顯然是垃圾郵件和違反了我們公司的政策，正如我核實，這是也違反了您的政策。 Please ensure that your system is not used to send spams to taragana.com in future.請確保您的系統是不被用來發送垃圾郵件，以taragana.com在未來。 Thanks,AngsumanPS.感謝， angsumanps 。 I am including the full email as well as the vCard of the abuser as attachment.PPS.我相信，包括完整的電子郵件，以及為的vCard的施虐者作為attachment.pps 。 I would appreciate if you would let me know what action has been taken against the member.我將不勝感激如果你讓我知道什麼已採取行動對會員。

I immediately received an confirmation of我立即收到了確認
receipt email.在收到的電子郵件。 

 Thank you for taking the time to contact the Abuse InvestigationsDepartment at Plaxo.感謝您抽出寶貴時間去接觸濫用investigationsdepartment在plaxo 。 We appreciate your help in reporting potentialviolations of our Terms of Service.我們感謝您的幫助在報告potentialviolations我們的服務條款。 We take all reports of abuse very seriously, and will respond back to you,if necessary.我們採取的所有報告濫用非常重視，並會作出回應，回到您，如果必要的。 If you would like to check the status of an abuse report,simply respond back to this message and someone will contact you shortly.如果您想檢查的地位濫用的報告，只需作出回應，回到此訊息，並有人將很快與您聯繫。 Thank you again.再次感謝你。 Plaxo Abuse Investigationsabuse@plaxo.com plaxo濫用investigationsabuse@plaxo.com

This was followed by a response from a plaxo official:在此之後的反應從一個plaxo負責人： 

 Angsuman,  Thank you for taking the time to contact Plaxo.由Angsuman ，感謝您抽出寶貴時間來接觸plaxo 。 I am the Trust Officerhere at Plaxo and I am responsible for addressing Trust and Securityissues regarding the usage of Plaxo.我的信任， officerhere在plaxo和我負責處理的信任和securityissues關於使用plaxo 。 I'll take a look at the member's account and history, and if I find theuser to have violated our Privacy Policy, their service will be revokedand you should no longer receive further emails.我會考慮一下在會員的帳戶和歷史的，如果我覺得theuser有侵犯我們的隱私權政策，他們的服務將revokedand你應該不再接受進一步的電子郵件。 If you receiving any further spam messages, please feel free to reportthem to abuse@plaxo.com.如果您收到任何進一步的垃圾郵件，請隨時reportthem ，以abuse@plaxo.com 。 Thank you for reporting this abuse.謝謝您報告這一虐待。 Stacy Martin斯泰西李柱銘

A very prompt & polite response, if I may say so.一個非常迅速＆禮貌的回應，如果我可以這樣說的話。 I was very much impressed.我是十分深刻的印象。

This was followed by a short email which informed me everything I wanted to know, all done within 2-3 hours.這是隨後進行了簡短的電子郵件，其中通知我，一切我想知道，所有做2-3小時。 

 Angsuman,  You wanted to know what action was taken.由Angsuman ，你想知道採取了什麼行動。 It wasn't much of aninvestigation.這是沒有多大的aninvestigation 。 The member has been disabled and will no longer haveaccess to our service under his currently registered email addresses.會員已被禁用和將不再haveaccess到我們的服務下，他目前註冊的電子郵件地址。 Thank you,  Stacy Martin__________________________ Stacy Martin                 Plaxo Trust Officer      'Stay Connected'謝謝你，斯泰西martin__________________________斯泰西李柱銘plaxo信託主任'保持聯繫'

I am very much impressed with the promptness of Plaxo in this regard and their swift response.我感到十分深刻的印象與及時plaxo在這方面和他們的迅速反應。 In fact I started looking to get myself enrolled in plaxo, because I felt they are someone I can trust with my contact information.事實上，我開始尋找讓自己就讀於plaxo ，因為我覺得他們是有人，我可以信任與我的聯繫信息。

You may be thinking what's the big deal.您可能會思考什麼樣的大不了。 He can surely open another email account with say hotmail and repeat the procedure!他一定能夠打開另一個電子郵件帳戶與說， Hotmail和重複的程序！ Sure he can but now he cannot use Plaxo to keep his contact list updated which are associated with his actual email address.相信他可以，但現在他不能使用plaxo保住自己的聯絡人清單更新，這是與他的實際電子郵件地址。 Also you are even less likely to heed to a spam which comes from joesmith@hotmail.com (maybe an actual email, don't try it guys).還你甚至不太可能照顧到的垃圾郵件來自joesmith@hotmail.com （可能是一個實際的電子郵件，不要嘗試，這傢伙） 。 And its a bother.和它是一種麻煩。 Also this posting is bound to be此外，這次調職是必然要
read by few people who would give a second thought before approaching him for閱讀由少數人誰會給第二次思想之前，接近他
his mortgage needs.他按揭貸款的需求。

Now I have also written an email現在我也有書面的電子郵件
to abuse@att.com.以abuse@att.com 。 I will update this column with the results … keep reading.我會更新這個欄目與結果…繼續閱讀。

Here's the contact information the在這裡的聯絡信息
spammer gave me in case you wanted to垃圾郵件發送者給了我的情況你要
do business with him做生意與他 . 。

Name: Richard Milford名稱：理查德米爾福德
Company: MortgageCap Financial公司名稱： mortgagecap金融
Phone: 212-631-4272電話： 212-631-4272
Email: milford@mortgagecapfinancial.com電子郵件： milford@mortgagecapfinancial.com
Web: http://www.mortgagecapfinancial.com網址： http://www.mortgagecapfinancial.com