Who do I report SPAM (porn) to?

[BooneRebel]

Other than the originating site, what are the legal authorities responsible for enforcing laws against SPAM in the US? The HR director in my building just received a porno SPAM (including PICS!). I'm pretty sure that distributing unsolicited porno is against the law & I'd like to follow-up to settle her nerves a little. Any suggestions?

I was looking for something a little more substantial than filtering future emails, but doesn't look like there's anything available. Maybe the AT effect will help:

The IP address of the site hosting the unsubscribe is 66.192.17.27

 

[pulse8]

Spamcop

 

[StageLeft]

Do not bother. You have to live with this. Any efforts against it at utterly futile. I get these as well constantly. We all do. There is simply nothing you can do but put in various filters onto incoming email. Wasting too much effort in this will just frustrate you as you realize how absolutely powerless you are to stop the influx of porn and other useless spam that you get.

 

[BooneRebel]

 

[docmanhattan]

<< Spamcop >>

You can report it, but Skroob is right. It's pointess.
The better idea is to be preventative in your actions. Just make sure your have 2 email addresses: one for sending anything important and the other for the rest.

 

[mdennison]

I would pay good money for a program where I could send spammers about 100,000 emails each and hopefully get them to leave me alone. It's like, why do I get 20+ spams a day!?

Oh well

Not much can be done

Good luck!

ps: if anyone knows of a program, let me know 😀

 

[rahvin]

<< << Spamcop >>

You can report it, but Skroob is right. It's pointess.
The better idea is to be preventative in your actions. Just make sure your have 2 email addresses: one for sending anything important and the other for the rest. >>



No, Skroob isn't right. Spamcop WORKS. It sorts out bogus headers and gets stuff actually shut down. You should try it before you actually say it doesn't work because it does.

 

[swayinOtis]

i don't know if reporting spam of any kind ever works. i'm pessimistic and bitter. maybe it came from overseas so what could anyone, even john ashcroft, do about it?

thankfully my real email address is a secret. i might get 1 or 2 spams (non porn) a month.

i found a nice little program that will let you preview your email. you can then do several things, delete it on the server, filter it, or my favorite, bounce it back at the bastards. once they see the bounce (for those that don't know, see note) they hopefully will not send any more spam to what they think is a dead mailbox. that all depends on whether or not the return address the spammer used was legitimate.

note: when your ISP can't deliver email to you it will send a notice back to the sender telling them as much. your ISP will "bounce" the email to you back to the originator. usually a bounce means the email address is no longer valid.

as an example, send an email to aadsf8asd8f7dsf@aol.com and it should be bounced back to you as undeliverable.

anyway, here's the program

 

[docmanhattan]

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<< << Spamcop >>

You can report it, but Skroob is right. It's pointess.
The better idea is to be preventative in your actions. Just make sure your have 2 email addresses: one for sending anything important and the other for the rest. >>



No, Skroob isn't right. Spamcop WORKS. It sorts out bogus headers and gets stuff actually shut down. You should try it before you actually say it doesn't work because it does. >>

It's still pointless. For every one spam address that you trace back to, there will 1,000 more. It's like junk snailmail that way. If you put your address out there where people can get it, then you're going to get spam. period.

Simple solution: get a yahoo address address for all the freebie junk you want to sign up for. Keep your whatever.isp.com address strictly for friends, family, work, or whatever.

 

[jonMEGA]

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as an example, send an email to aadsf8asd8f7dsf@aol.com and it should be bounced back to you as undeliverable. >>



Thats MY email address 😛

 

[rahvin]

<< It's still pointless. For every one spam address that you trace back to, there will 1,000 more. It's like junk snailmail that way. If you put your address out there where people can get it, then you're going to get spam. period.

Simple solution: get a yahoo address address for all the freebie junk you want to sign up for. Keep your whatever.isp.com address strictly for friends, family, work, or whatever.
>>



Look if you don't practice responsible use and control of your email address then you WILL get spam. My personal account is highly guarded by me, but I do occasionaly get a spam message. Spamcop takes care of those. If everyone reported spam all the open relays would get shut down and spammers wouldn't be able to spam! There is only one situation spamcop did NOT work, in that case I added the entire domain to my BADMAILFROM and the emails are rejected by my mail server.

You just don't understand how spamcop works, it emails the people that provide access to the spammer, their provider, the provider of the mail server they used, the owner of the AIRN block of IP's the spammer is using and the webmaster of any website refered to in the spam. When you start sending the spam back to the people who trafficed the spam for the spammer you help shut them down. Do it enough and the spammer will take you out of their lists because you are a "troublemaker".

 

[docmanhattan]

<< Look if you don't practice responsible use and control of your email address then you WILL get spam. My personal account is highly guarded by me, but I do occasionaly get a spam message. Spamcop takes care of those. If everyone reported spam all the open relays would get shut down and spammers wouldn't be able to spam! There is only one situation spamcop did NOT work, in that case I added the entire domain to my BADMAILFROM and the emails are rejected by my mail server.

You just don't understand how spamcop works, it emails the people that provide access to the spammer, their provider, the provider of the mail server they used, the owner of the AIRN block of IP's the spammer is using and the webmaster of any website refered to in the spam. When you start sending the spam back to the people who trafficed the spam for the spammer you help shut them down. Do it enough and the spammer will take you out of their lists because you are a "troublemaker". >>

relax. 😛
I know how spamcop works. 😉 But you're missing my point. All I am saying is that you can have all the ORBZ type sites you want and backtrack through the headers of all your email until you're blue in the face, but for every one that you stop another will pop up. And the reason it will never work is because any solution to stopping spam that requires everybody to do something will never work because it's relying on the most unreliable thing out there: users. 😀 😉

Like you said: guard your address.