How to Fight Spam

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The more you clean up your email, the faster it grows. Receiving Spam email is not only annoying, bothersome, and sometimes expensive, it could also cause you to completely have everything on your computer deleted. Spam is difficult to control, even if you block the sender. They just use a different email address. There is another method to try, that with patience will get these spammers stopped.

Steps

Finding the Headers

Open up a spam email. Make sure you are using an email service such as Gmail that will not run HTML or pictures.

View the full headers of the email. To view a specific guide for viewing it on Spamcop can be viewed here.

SpamCop Method 1

Find the place where it says "Received-SPF: (google.com: best guess record for domain of designates as ) in the headers (for GMail).

Take and go to SpamCop.

Paste it into the box and click Process Spam. This will give you an abuse email address (or more than one).

Email the address(es) and complain. Make sure to include the full headers (all the text you see after pressing "Show Original")!

SpamCop Method 2 (recommended)

Select all the text of the full headers with Ctrl+A.

Press Ctrl+C to copy the headers.

Go to SpamCop and sign up.

Paste the full headers into the box and press "Process Spam", or just send the headers to the email address given to you above the box. If you send it, wait for an email (unless you are using Quick Reporting) and click on the link in it.

Scroll down and click "Send Reports".

Complainterator

Find the spammed URL in the message.

Visit the website (in Firefox with anti-malware protection running) to make sure that it is still active.

Download the latest version of Complainterator.

Post the link into Complainterator, choose your speed and mail provider, and click OK.

Wait for Complainterator to generate a message.

Add any extra information to the message under evidence, such as a SpamTrackers entry, a SiteAdvisor link, a Spamhaus SBL Advisory, and/or the full source of the message you received, in the email or in a text file hosted on the internet.