Based upon several "bounce messages" we have been receiving in the last few days (assuming those bounce messages aren't being forged), my wife's personal email address is being forged as the "from address" in some jerks p**is enlargement SPAM.
The question is, what should we do about it (if anything)? Should I contact my ISP, to let them know about this issue (so our family doesn't get blamed)? Should I try tracking down each "received by" link, to report this SPAMer to the abuse department of each ISP? Should I post copies of the SPAM headers (where available) for analysis here (along with the actual SPAM that points to a rather dubious domain)? Should I just "live with it", as this is something notoriously hard to fight?
NOTE: I do run both a firewall, and anti-virus (which is updated daily). Also there doesn't seem to be other signs (for example, unexpected network activity) that any of my home machines are "infected". So I really think this is probably someone forging my wife's email address on their own SPAM (which they are sending out from somewhere else). OTOH: This is at least slightly annoying to us, because they are essentially using "identity theft" (by forging my wife's real email address in their SPAM)!
NOTE: The "received by" lines of the original messages (as reported in the bounce messages) seem to be coming from a variety of different places, so there is a chance that this SPAMer has a SPAM bot-net running (and the places these emails are coming from are just "compromised machines", instead of the original SPAMer).
