Spam - Complaining

[BJE]

Is there any program which can be used to automatically send a complaint to
"abuse @ whoever"
I use Mail washer, but would like to be more active in spam prevention.

BJE

 

[James A. Smith]

In oe6 I have a mail rule that fowards spam to
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection which tries to
stop spammers.

(e-mail address removed)

See
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

for more info.

 

[REMbranded]

"James A. Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:

In oe6 I have a mail rule that fowards spam to
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection which tries to
stop spammers.


for more info.

That's not a bad idea. I'm wondering how much capacity they have to
battle the stuff though. I just redirected 20 of the less desirable
spams I just got to them. I can't help but to feel like I'm spamming
them. I sent only the ones with a working URL, so I'm pretty sure they
can find the creeps even if they used a bogus email account.

And I wonder if sending foreign spam in is bad. They probably can't
stop it and it clogs the system. If everyone did this for a week
imagine the amount they would have to sift through.

 

[YK]

Is there any program which can be used to automatically send a
complaint to "abuse @ whoever"
I use Mail washer, but would like to be more active in spam
prevention.

BJE

I use SpamCop. There is a free reporting account or a fee automated
account. If you display the full spam in Mailwasher and copy-n-paste into
Spamcop's reporting window and enable the Show technical details it will
show you the logic that is uses to find the source of spam.
http://spamcop.net

Learning how to read headers is also helpfull. Read alt.spam and see how
Mike Easter decodes spam in his responses.
The following site has a brief description on how to read spam headers.
The most important thing is to read top to bottom. Spammers are using open
proxies/relays so determining the real responsible source can be very hard.
http://combat.uxn.com/tracing.html

The following is good for looking up the whois information of the owning IP
address.
http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi

The following is good for looking up the reporting abuse@ address.
http://www.abuse.net/lookup.phtml

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Is there any program which can be used to automatically send a complaint to
"abuse @ whoever"
I use Mail washer, but would like to be more active in spam prevention.

To complain properly you need to know where a spam came from. As
most reply address' are fake it can be far from an easy task. I have a
VERY old FAQ on spam that might be of some use to you at :

http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/spam

Section 19 should be considered carefully.


Regards, John.

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