How to report spam.

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There are only 3 steps you have to take to fight spammers.

1. When you get spam, view the headers:
Viewing email Headers in MS Outlook Express or Internet Mail
Viewing email Headers in Netscape Messenger
Viewing email Headers on AOL

Then copy and paste the entire message including headers into a reply.
You want to keep the re: spam message

2. Look at the headers, but disregard the from line. Spammers do not use their correct email address. We have to find them by the company they used to get online.
Here is what a header looks like from a spam I got and reported to yahoo who then canceled that users account.

Return-path: brycen3357@yahoo.com     <--fake address
Envelope-to: admin@yc group.com        <--my address
Delivery-date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:45:22 -0500
Received: from mail.col.eudel.co ([209.88.61.15]
helo=primergy.eudel.com)              <--fake address
        by inversion.eventmediagroup.com with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) <--my mail server
        id 16nObq-0002Zs-00
        for admin@yc group.com; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:45:22 -0500

Received: from mx1.mail.yahoo.com (210.235.74.89.user.ag.il24.net <--his mail server(s)
[210.235.74.89]) by primergy.eudel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange
Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13)

        id HACV5WNP; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:32:02 -0500

Message-ID: <000038e57389$00004b77$00000d56@mx1.mail.yahoo.com>
To: 
From: brycen3357@yahoo.com
Subject: Free Foreign Currency Newsletter
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:55:10 -2000

Here, the only mail server we can complain to is yahoo because the other is located in Japan and they don't care.

3. Send the copy and pasted spam, including header to abuse@yahoo.com in this case.

Look up mail server by doing a traceroute search with this form: