How Can I Report a Spammer? - Comments Page 2

The best anti-spam org I know is Signal Spam at:
https://www.signal-spam.fr/en/

Easy to set up, you don't have to chase for headers, &c, and no come-back - I've never had the spammer try an alternative route to get me.
It's a reputable org - lists who runs it (French and English co-operation)

Here is a novel approach that I use for upsetting spammers.
I go into the spam filters then any new spam I get I set up the filter to forward it automatically to another spammer or even back to its own source.
I know this is frowned on by some but at least I have very little spam.

Maybe we're going about this the wrong way. Instead of going after the spammers, why doesn't law enforcement go after the sponsors? If the sponsors (e.g. customers) were prosecuted or heavily fined, there wouldn't be any customers for the spammers in the first place.

I use Spamcop to report spam and have been frustrated by spam from one particular Japanese domain (ocn.ad.jp) that sends at least 50% of the spam I receive. Abuse notifications are sent to abuse@ocn.ad.jp but the spam continues.

Hi Bob,
Thank you for your newsletters during past years. As an"oldie" with average computer experience your advice and tips; particularly about Windows 10, are things we would never find out.
With reference to your latest article about spam mail. For many years I have used a programme called MailWasher - from Firetrust. I could waffle on about it's virtues but to avoid that for you, Google MailWasher Pro Firetrust and that will give you details. I use the Pro version which has a subscription but the free version works well also. My apologies if I'm telling you something you know.
Thanks again, your newsletters and tips are life savers for me.
Sincerely,
Colin Churchill

Colin Churchill

Another great article Bob. A lot of my clients have asked for spam advice over the last 20 years. At first in the late 90's, I told them to ignore it. (They didn't seem to like that.) Later on, I encouraged them to set up new, longer, e-mail addresses - without any names or words; just meaningly characters and numbers. (But they REALLY didn't like THAT.)

Fortunately, as time went on, gMail came along with it's fairly effective spam filter. So, I dumped my HotMail and Comcast accounts (which were drowning in unsolicited nonsence), switched and then advised everyone I knew to do the same. (Few bothered of course, so to this day, most continue fighting their never-ending battle with it; complaining the whole time...)

Today, I rarely see spam at all. But if any slips through, Google makes it very easy to report it, as well as set additional filters/rules, if desired. Additionally, the option to use two-step verification, is invaluable for protection from hackers snagging control of gMail accounts and grabbing their Contacts lists. As you might guess, I've advised everyone to activate that feature, as it works seamlessly once you've taken a little time to set it up properly. (But naturally, few want to be bothered... )

I get little to no spam of any kind through my Internet Service Provider's email accounts I have with them (Centurylink). But the one email address that I have with Microsoft is an abosolute mess. Everyday I get anywhere from 10 to 25 emails, sometimes more, unsolicited. And most of them are pure garbage. I don't even bother with this account. I just delete everything. Microsoft is of no help in blocking this stuff, some of which is obviously trash which a 5 year old would recognize. This is the very first email address I had ever set up. And I suspect Microsoft has sold it multiple times.I keep it as a "throwaway" address if I need one temporarily to download a program. I am seriously considering
canceling it if this continues. I am not a very big fan of MS at all.

I began using spam cop after reading this by forwarding it to the mentioned email address, BUT most come back with, "SpamCop encountered errors while saving spam for processing:SpamCop could not find your spam message in this email:"

However, I am pretty sure they were both spam and phishing. What tricks spam cop is that the entire message is an image so no filters could even see what is there.
I sent them this note and did not hear back.