SPAM mails - How to report them.

[Max]

How do I easily report (and block) spam mail to help other Internet users?
Is there a central organisation to try to stop this fraud?
Today I was suprised to recieve a 'bargain' investment invitation from:

< X-Gmail-Received: 1d9ffb606bed155c04d85b879fae5533aafdcf3f
Delivered-To: (e-mail address removed)
Received: by 10.78.48.10 with SMTP id v10cs35665huv;
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.37.20.8 with SMTP id x8mr1727726nzi;
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from awwpp ([166.114.98.45])
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id 15si2063303nzp.2006.04.20.19.48.37;
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 166.114.98.45 is neither permitted nor
denied by best guess record for domain of (e-mail address removed))
Received: from zqm.bddm ([166.114.129.134])
by awwpp (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3L2nhWD062584;
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:49:43 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: "Odette Bryan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: economics counterbalance
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:47:46 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="multipart/alternative";
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001B_01C664CC.89462776"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

 

[William.Gunn]

The official types call it "Unsolicited Commercial Email" instead of
spam. Try the following URL:http://www.usdoj.gov/spam.htm

 

[Max]

Thanks William, but that link < http://www.usdoj.gov/spam.htm > does not
really help me as I'm in "old" Europe, not yet under US jurisdiction.
This US government site is long and complex to follow and seems to be for
their Hurricane Katrina.
Any other ideas please?

 

[William.Gunn]

you could try http://cauce.org, but they may be US only too. try
searching using unsolicited commercial email as a query and you're
likely to find official sites.

 

[Pat Willener]

How do I easily report (and block) spam mail to help other Internet users?
Is there a central organisation to try to stop this fraud?
Today I was suprised to recieve a 'bargain' investment invitation from:

A good place to report spam (and contribute to the blocking list) is
http://www.spamcop.net/

P.S. please note the difference between spam (which most people dislike)
and SPAM, which is a registered trademark of Hormel Foods.

 

[Max]

Many thanks Pat, I shall try that.

I see this reply on another conversation:

There's a better solution out there, one which adapts to the particular
type of spam your account gets, so if the spammers switch from images
to something else, it will switch also. It's called SpamBayes. Do a
google search for SpamBayes, go to the first link, and download the
windows outlook add-in. I use it and it works great.