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Over the years reporting
spam has gotten ridiculously easy to the point where all
tha tis needed is the original email so that it can be
forwarded to a "reporting" organization. Due
to its "Snake Oil" characteristics, the FTC
(Federal Trade Commission) has a spam reporting center to
investigate spam. Some state attorney general's also
investigate spammers so check with your local office. Here
are 4 simple steps to reporting spam:
1. Get an account at SpamCop.net.
To report the spam that does gets passed the filter.
2. Use the email generated from SpamCop.net and now
automatically forward all messages with "Spam
Alert" in the subject to the Spam Cop email. 3.
Get the Government involved. The FTC is also a place
to report spam, so add uce@ftc.gov
to the recipients list of the email. 4.
(optional) To go the extra mile, you can Decipher
the Email Header and send the spam email to the actual
ISP who allowed the spam to go through their network.
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