How Do I Report A Spam Email

southernscouser

I've got one of those wonderful get rich quick Paypal scams from an MSN email addrress. Normally I just delete them but I've had enough of them so want to do my bit in getting this planks email shut down. I know they only open another email address but at least it inconveniences them!

But, how do I go about reporting them and to who?

superscaper

southernscouser wrote:

I've got one of those wonderful get rich quick Paypal scams from an MSN email addrress. Normally I just delete them but I've had enough of them so want to do my bit in getting this planks email shut down. I know they only open another email address but at least it inconveniences them!

But, how do I go about reporting them and to who?

That would be very unfair as you don't know who the spam came from. Almost certainly not from the email address it displays. In the past I've had my one of my domains used as return address of spam and it's not pleasant getting irate emails accusing me of being a spammer when the I.P address origin of the spam is blatantly china or somewhere.

southernscouser

superscaper wrote:

That would be very unfair as you don't know who the spam came. Almost certainly not from the email address it displays.

What do you mean it is unfair?

I have the email address this email came from and I want to report them. I actually think it's unfair that I have to receive this sh!te everyday! :rolleyes:

superscaper

How do you know you have email address of where it came from?

southernscouser

superscaper wrote:

How do you know you have email address of where it came from?

It says from Joe Bloggs then gives the email address!

superscaper

Well when you send an email (especially important when you are a spammer) you can type anything in the "from" field. I'm willing to bet the spam did NOT come from that email address. People have used my email address before as the "from" in the email, it doesn't mean I'm a spammer does it? And reporting my email address wouldn't achieve anything.

southernscouser

Well if it's someone elses account maybe that person would appreciate me reporting that their email address is being used fraudulently (sp)!

Anyway does anyone know how I go about reporting it?

superscaper

You could try reporting the spam to the true origin of the email which will be an IP address found in the email header which you'll have to do a reverse IP lookup to find the person of organisation responsible for that range of IP addresses and they'll usually have an abuse contact. But it won't be anything to do with the email address you see.

superscaper

southernscouser wrote:

Well if it's someone elses account maybe that person would appreciate me reporting that their email address is being used fraudulently (sp)!

Anyway does anyone know how I go about reporting it?

There's nothing that can be done about using someone else's email address. An analogy would be someone writing a different person's address as the sender on a letter. It's just the email address that's used, it has nothing to do with the account associated with email. You could send an email to someone right now and use my email address to make it look like it's come from me. It doesn't mean you've compromised my account and also there is nothing I can do to stop you.

southernscouser

superscaper wrote:

You could try reporting the spam to the true origin of the email which will be an IP address found in the email header which you'll have to do a reverse IP lookup to find the person of organisation responsible for that range of IP addresses and they'll usually have an abuse contact. But it won't be anything to do with the email address you see.

Thanks very much.

This is the IP address. 65.54.246.175

Where do I go from here?

espresso

southernscouser wrote:

Thanks very much.

This is the IP address. 65.54.246.175

Where do I go from here?

Just ignore it. Spam is a fact of life and just because it says that it came from fred.smith@yourisp.com doesn't mean that it actually did. Spammers commonly spoof the from field, to an address that you are familiar with, so that you will open the email.

The IP doesn't help much, so just learn to live with :spam: