tracking scammers by IP number - OT

[Jeff Lightner]

I live in the US (and NO, I'm not Natalya).  You'd be hard pressed to
get someone put in jail even under existing spam laws and for fraud
you'd have to prove they had financially benefited from it.  Has Oz had
more success in imprisoning/fining spammers?

Also given that Yahoo is a US company I don't know that mail coming from
a yahoo address wouldn't always come from a US server regardless of the
sender's original login.  I regularly correspond with a German woman
living in France that originally got her hotmail account while living in
the U.S.  I've never checked to see where her email appears to have come
from but wouldn't be surprised if it was a US server given hotmail is a
M$ service.

Anyway my own Yahoo mail account gets a fair amount of spam though the
majority is blocked.  Yahoo itself allows for a fair amount of anonymity
so I seldom trust email accounts that end in yahoo.com as being anything
real until I've chatted on line with the person a fair amount and even
then I make sure not to provide much information.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Alexander Harvey
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:53 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: tracking scammers by IP number

Hi Bind Users.
I am wondering if anyone on this list can advise me on a little personal
project I'm working on at the moment:

Over the years I have been contacted by people who have responded to my
profile on various internet dating sites pretending to be beautiful
Russian
princesses trying desperately to flee their lives of hardship in Russia
into
a wholesome marriage in a first-world country such as Australia, where I
happen to live.

For the last few days I have been corresponding with a person who calls
him/herself 'Natalya,' uses a yahoo email address, claims to be in Omsk,
Russia, but whose email headers show in fact his/her messages are coming
from various servers in the US.

My question is this: beyond collecting IP numbers for my own curiosity &
watching on a map the various originating locations of these messages,
what
can I do to have these people actually put into a lovely US prison?

The originating headers always look something like this:

Received: from unknown (HELO 127.0.0.1) (drobotnat at 69.143.102.104 with
plain)
  by smtp111.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 2006 14:06:19
-0000
X-YMail-OSG:
xAeutlYVM1nrbM0hGg4nL0YSueszX7_Q5Pqnsg_L6tjr0BNPAyFXUjqTe4vcHI83LdQ6umEz
0GZPbbqtCrwy93cVsZUh3m5QKT4HrZYUflT5YI5WzW2ifg--
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:41:43 +0300
From: Natalya <drobotnat at yahoo.com>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.00.6)
Reply-To: Natalya <drobotnat at yahoo.com>
Organization: home
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <1567629203.20061228164143 at yahoo.com>
To: "Alexander Harvey" <alexh19740110 at gmail.com>

Many thanks,

Alex Harvey
UNIX Administrator