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Addresses to report spam

If you send me spam, I automatically turn around and forward it to the following addresses:

When it also involves phishing, I add the following:

Then two of the most popular spams I get are stock tips and cialis/viagra junk, so I forward them to enforcement@sec.gov and webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov respectively. Then 419 Nigerian scams to get 12 million dollars of free money for just "borrowing" my checking account, get forwarded to 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov, even though I don't think much can be done about them. If I'm in a particularly bad mood, I forward OEM/cheap software spam to piracy@microsoft.com, spamwatch@symantec.com, and/or piracy@adobe.com, since Symantec, Adobe, and Microsoft are almost always part of their catalog.


Submitted by deekayen on Thu, 06/29/2006 - 2:50am
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Addresses to report phishing

I just got a very good phishing email from someone who registered the domain chase-survey.com only 2 days ago. It was so good, I was actually motivated to report it to someone. With some Google searches, I found to forward an email with full headers as an attachment in Thunderbird, I actually had to be viewing full headers, too, otherwise, it just puts the standard basic 4 headers in the forward. Better yet, drag the phishing message into a new email as an attachment to get the full headers without having to view full headers.

I found the following addresses to forward phishing to:

spam at uce.gov
phishing-report at us-cert.gov
spoof at millersmiles.co.uk
scams at fraudwatchinternational.com
reportphishing at antiphishing.org
fraud at phishfraud.com
phishsubmit at wholesecurity.com
report at reportphish.org

I like to think the .gov addresses would be the most important to send to, but I bet they get a huge volume of emails, have a tiny staff, and are only able to follow up on a tiny percent of actual phishing.


Submitted by deekayen on Sat, 02/11/2006 - 1:51am
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