[Discussion] scam/phishing reporting

[Krampetz at aol.com]

For some time,   I've been using   reportphishing at antiphishing.org,  
& spam at uce.gov.
I have never gotten ANY indication that either one does anything
with the email.    
 
What I do (depending on how p.o.'d  I am at the spam)..
1 - FORWARD the email to create what I will report (creates a new  email)
2 - COPY all header info from the original, to the top of the new FWD  
email.
3 - Scroll down the header and pick up every URL's site name.
       If it's a well known name (Hotmail.com  Yahoo.com , att.net,  ....) 
I enter
       'abuse at thatname'  in the 'SEND  TO:' section..  it may be several.  
They
       may be in Russia (.ru),  Germany  (.de) etc,   I don't  care - I add 
'em all.
     ALSO, if an odd name I may use WHOIS to find the  ID's of the tech
      support or admin or owner, and I add them  too.  
4    When done with #3 (If I do any),  I'll add  the two I showed above. 
      (it's merely 'sp' on my emailer which  expands it.   So though the 
above 
      LOOKS like a lot of work,   there's minimally 5-7 key clicks if I 
don't
     add any 'abuse at' recipients.  (I'd love  macro ability and would 
switch 
     to that email pgm!)
 
If I was more sure all this was worth doing,  I'd do more than the  very few
  I do in a day,   I'd bombard every damn spam I  get,  
 
I get a couple 'no such ..' returns, but It helps when I get those "we  
apologize,
    and are looking into ..."  emails back!..
 
Bob K.
 
 
 
In a message dated 03/25/10 08:35:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
POSSI-4c9yah2 at listemail.net writes:

** Reply  to message from "Phil Parker" <phil at math.wichita.edu> on Thu, 25  
Mar
2010 21:56:34 -0500

> One can forward spam to spam at uce.gov to  report spam to the FCC.
> 
> Is there a similar forward to report  scam/phishing email to the Feds, 
probably
> the FTC?

At one time  I think there was an address for the FTC but I think it has 
been
closed  down.  The only address I know of is the spam at uce.gov which is 
where  I
send all my spam (they use it mostly for keeping statistics).

--  
Robert  Blair
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