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I was tired of a spammer ignoring my repeated requests to be taken off his spamming list. I went through all the proper steps, and some less proper. I started e-mailing him directly. Then, I eventually got tired of that. I looked up his information in a whois search and found the contact info. Once I found that, I then did a white-pages lookup for his name in Florida where he operates. There were two numbers listed at his address. I called the first one and left a message stating that unwanted e-mails would result in much more severe actions, including fraud charges and arrest by the PBSO. Then I called the other number. It was his daughter's line. I asked her if her father was the same name as I had found, and if he worked for the company I had found. She said yes. I asked her if she knew what her father did for a living. She said "He writes software that makes people feel good." I then told her that her father was actually one of the biggest spammers in the nation, responsible for sending all sorts of e-mails to people. She called for her mother. I explained to the wife what her husband's business did. She was stunned. I then told her that some of the e-mails were ones I had to explain to my 3 year old son that he needed to not be watching over my shoulder because I didn't want him seeing people in those positions. She then called her husband to the phone. I told him that the game was up, and his family knew what he did. He just hung up the phone. I never got another e-mail from him.

Paul