AOL refuses to shut down user accounts that have been shown to send out spam time and time again. Here’s a spam I recently received:
Return-Path: <smurphygurl19@aol.com>
Received: from omr-m33.mx.aol.com (omr-m33.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.145])
by smtp.domain1.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2R4T2hi001413
for <user@domain2.com>; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:29:03 GMT
Received: from oms-mb03.r1000.mx.aol.com (oms-mb03.r1000.mx.aol.com [64.12.102.139])
by omr-m33.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p2R4CE0A031002;
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:12:31 -0400
Received: from mtaomg-da01.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtaomg-da01.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.51.137])
by oms-mb03.r1000.mx.aol.com (AOL Outbound OMS Interface) with ESMTP id 325211C000083;
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from core-dac001b.r1000.mail.aol.com (core-dac001.r1000.mail.aol.com [172.29.14.141])
by mtaomg-da01.r1000.mx.aol.com (OMAG/Core Interface) with ESMTP id EA529E000085;
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
To: xxx@xxx.com
Subject: Hello
X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI
X-AOL-IP: 182.52.68.102
X-MB-Message-Type: User
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: smurphygurl19@aol.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii”
X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 33456-STANDARD
Received: from 182.52.68.102 by webmail-m087.sysops.aol.com (64.12.224.201) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:12:30 -0400
Message-Id: <8CDBA4C5359314F-4C0-1365F@webmail-m087.sysops.aol.com>
X-Originating-IP: [182.52.68.102]
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
x-aol-global-disposition: S
X-SPAM-FLAG:YES
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:170288576:93952408
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0
X-AOL-REROUTE: YES
x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d33894d8eb92e7742
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by smtp.domain1.com id p2R4T2hi001413http://cronos.mireene.com/23i42.html
The account for ‘smurphygurl19’ has been used repeatedly to send spam (almost 30 to a single account since last October from my count), yet AOL will not take action against the account and shut it down. I noticed this in the header:
X-SPAM-FLAG:YES
Does that mean that AOL knows that the email is a spam and yet they’re still delivering it?!? It would appear that way to me.