Spam Links

Spam Reporting Addresses

On this page you will find a range of addresses to which you can report spam. Contact addresses for Internet Service Providers are useful in order to let them know of network abuse commited by their own customers. Also listed are addresses to contact based on the content of the spam: fraud, scams, software piracy, and many other offences that are themselves unacceptable, be they advertised by spam or not.

ISP Abuse Addresses

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General Abuse Address Lookup

Type Email Address or URL Notes
ISP by domain

Abuse.net

You can query abuse.net by whois:
whois.abuse.net

You can query Abuse.net by DNS for TXT records, e.g. for:
example.com.contacts.abuse.net

Send updates to update@abuse.net:
example.com: abuse@example.com
abuseEmail For download
Where to complain about spam that uses free email accounts  
Where to send your Spam Complaints  
ISP by IP address IP Abuse Lookup (IPAL)  
DeadBeef frontend to abuse.net
SpamID, by IP  
Complain to Whom, by IP  
Joe Wein Abuse by IP  
Nospam-PL abuse lookup  
Korean ISPs Korean Network Abuse Contact List  
Taiwanese ISPs Taiwanese dial up service providers  
Domain Registrars Descriptions and Contact Information for ICANN-Accredited Registrars  

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Specific ISPs' Abuse Addresses

ISP Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Hotmail report_spam@hotmail.com     Hotmail abuse address
MSN report_spam@msn.com     Hotmail abuse address
GMail gmail-abuse@google.com
Report GMail spam
    ?
AOL tosspam AOL members only For AOL members to report spam they receive AOL Legal
Yahoo! Stores store-spam@yahoo-inc.com Yahoo! Stores advertised in spam   Yahoo! Store Help
Yahoo! Hosted Domans domains-abuse@yahoo-inc.com Yahoo! hosted websites advertised in spam   ?
ImageShack Report ImageShack spam Spam using ImageShack images   -
Your ISP ? ? Ask your ISP if they would like to see samples of spam that got through their filters -

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Country Spam Reporting Addresses

If spam is connected to a company located in one of these countries you have a case for reporting it to the relevant address.
Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Australia ACMA Spam Reporting System Foreign spam (or unknown origin), for Australian residents Australia Spam Laws ACMA
reportingspam@submit.spam.acma.gov.au Foreign spam (or unknown origin), for Australian residents
Formal spam complaint form Australian spammers
Belgium

spam@privacy.fgov.be

Belgian spam Belgium Spam Laws privacy
Brazil mail-abuse@cert.br Brazillian spam Brazillian CERT CERT-BR
China spam@ccert.edu.cn Chinese spam   ?
abuse@anti-spam.cn   Anti-spam CN
Denmark spam@fs.dk Danish spam Forbruger ombudsmanden (Net-tjek). Include a short background of your complaint; and your name, address and email address. ?
Germany mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de Public sector or companies with offices in Berlin

Germany Spam Laws

Daten Schutz
poststelle@ldi.nrw.de Companies in Germany's Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW) state LDI DRW
Hong Kong webmaster@ofta.gov.hk Hong Kong spam   ?
Korea spamcop@kisa.or.kr Korean spam Korea Spam Laws Korea Spam Response Center
Netherlands meldpunt@spamvrij.nl Dutch spam Looks like a private scheme spamvrij
Klacht indienen   spamklacht
Malaysia Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Malaysian spam   -
United Kingdom UK Information Commissioner UK origin spam UK Spam Laws -
Advertising Standards Agency new guidelines at the CAP -
United States spam@uce.gov
US connected spam US Spam Laws FTC
Report Porn Spam US connected porn spam   -

caspam@doj.ca.gov

CA residents
See CAAG

US States' Spam Laws CAAG
spamcomplaint@ago.mo.gov Missouri spam US States' Spam Laws ?
cybercrime@oag.state.va.us Virginian spam US States' Spam Laws OAGVA

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Spam Archive Submitting Addresses

Archive Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Brightmail junk@brightmail.com Any spam   ?
Send Us Spam spam@sendusspam.com Any spam   Send Us Spam
NANAS nanas@killfile.org or
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings@moderators.isc.org
See the FAQ Newsgroup NANAS FAQ
MailPolice spam@mailpolice.com Any spam   MailPolice
Fortinet submitspam@fortinet.com Any spam Antispam vendor Fortinet
Knujon

nonregistered@coldrain.net
or register for additional service

Any spam See Terms of Use Knujon
MailProve report@dcm.mailprove.com Any spam Forward the spam to MailProve as an attachment MailProve

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Spam-related Fraud, Scams and Crimes

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General Fraud

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
International eConsumer.gov     -
US Internet Crime Complaint Center     -
FTC Complaint Form     -
Canada Reporting Economic Crime OnLine (RECOL)   RCMP -

Competition Bureau

  Competition Bureau -
UK scams@oft.gsi.gov.uk Scams Office of Fair Trading, for their awareness - they will not take any action OFT
ConsumerDirect Scams Will forward to OFT and Trading Standards -
ConsumerComplaints.org.uk Trading standards of UK company Trading Standards -
UK Trading Standards -
reports@banksafeonline.org.uk Money mules and other financial fraud in UK Bank Safe Online, part of APACS BSO
Australia

Slam a Cyberscam

  ACCC -
Finland

krp-kirjaamo@krp.poliisi.fi

    NBI Finland
Hong Kong crimeinformation@police.gov.hk Direct link to something in Hong Kong   -
New Zealand ComCom.govt.nz     -
Denmark it-kriminalitet@politi.dk  

 

Politi
Private Better Business Bureau     -
NetCheck.com     -

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Nigerian 419 Fraud

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
US Contact USSS Financial Crimes Division

If you are in the US or the spam originates in the US

 

Mark emails with LOSS or NO LOSS as necessary

Fax the US NFIC on 202-835-0767, phone 800-876-7060

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UK fraud.alert@met.police.uk Non-residents if... ... your letter/e-mail contains details of the fraudsters' bank accounts/addresses/telephone numbers Met
Local UK police force

Residents

Residents should alert your local fraud office, through your local police force ?
Australia er-waoc@afp.gov.au   Australian Federal Police ?
Canada wafl@phonebusters.com

 

Phonebusters RCMP
Holland / Netherlands

voorlichting@klpd.politie.nl

    Politie
lbf@planet.nl If you are in the Netherlands and have become a victim of a 419 scammer

KLPD-Unit Financiële Criminaliteit-Landelijk Bureau Fraude

If your mail doesn't arrive try calling 079-345.89.02

Dutch MFA
Germany info@bka.de   BKA BKA
Nigeria info@cenbank.org     Cenbank 419
Sweden fipo@rkp.police.se   Swedish Police Polisen
South Africa mediarelations@saps.org.za or hq.commercial@saps.org.za  

South African Police Service

SAPS
International 419 Coalition     -
Scamorama postmaster@scamorama.com 419 spam Private 419 collection: no enforcement powers Scamorama
FraudWatch scams@fraudwatchinternational.com 419 spam Private 419 collection FraudWatch
419scam

419@419scam.org
Scam-o-Matic

419 spam Private 419 collection 419scam.org

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Exploitation of Children

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
International inhope

 

List of agencies -
Virtual Global Taskforce   List of agencies  
Report Child Pornography – address list  

List of agencies
Mirror here

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ECPAT Protecting Children Online   List of agencies -

International agencies for reporting Child Pornography

  List of agencies -
children@interpol.int   Interpol Contact Interpol
US CyberTipline

 

NCMEC -
Europe info@europol.eu.int EU Member States Europol Contact Europol
UK report@internetwatch.org.uk
Make A Report
  CEOP IWF
Canada cybertip!ca     -
Austria meldung@stopline.at
Report Online
  Stopline (ISPA) ISPA Stopline
Brazil denuncia@cedeca.org.br
  CEDECA -
Colombia Internet Sano     -
Denmark hotline@redbarnet.dk
Contact Red Barnet
  Red Barnet (Save the Children Denmark) Red Barnet
Finland

netti@pela.fi

  Northern Hotline Pela Nettivihje
France contact@pointdecontact.net   Point de Contact, ISP association. Use "Signalement" as subject. Point de Contact
Germany info@bka.de   BKA BKA
Iceland abending@barnaheill.is
Report Child Pornography
  Barnaheill (Save the Children iceland) Barnaheill
Ireland

report@hotline.ie
Report Online (preferred)

    hotline.ie
Italy Report Child Pornography   Stop-it -
Netherlands meldpunt@meldpunt.org     meldpunt
Norway

children@risk.online.no

  Redd Barna (Save the Children Norway) Redd Barna
South Korea singo@icec.or.kr
Report Harmful Content
  Internet 119 Internet 119
Spain a.acpi@terra.es   ACPI ACPI
Sweden Hotline Against Child Pornography   Radda Barnen -
childabuse@rkp.police.se
  Swedish Police Polisen
Switzerland Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control   CYCO Fedpol

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MMF, MLM and Pyramid Schemes

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
International MMF Table     -
US fraud@uspis.gov mail fraud   ?
USPS Mail Fraud Complaint mail fraud   -
Canada compbureau@cb-bc.gc.ca

  Competition Bureau
UK Small Claims Court You were naïve enough to take part and lost money   -
Belgium eco.inspec@mineco.fgov.be     MinEco
Finland

krp-kirjaamo@krp.poliisi.fi

  Keskusrikospoliisi Poliisi
MailBoxes Etc. mbe####@mbemail.com   Replace #### with the “MailBoxes Etc.” number ?

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Stocks or Securities Fraud / Pump-n-Dump

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
US enforcement@sec.gov Investment spam SEC SEC
spam@nasd.com If the dealer is with the NASD NASD Investor Alert NASDR

Find a State Regulator
Investment Related Complaint

State Investment spam NASAA -
Canada

Contact RCMP

Investment spam RECOL -
consltcomm@fin.gc.ca Investment spam Department of Finance Finance Canada
inquiries@bcsc.bc.ca British Columbia investment BCSC -
Germany poststelle-ffm@bafin.de Investment spam BaFin BaFin
New Zealand

seccom@sec-com.govt.nz

Investment spam SecCom SecCom
Australia

infoline@asic.gov.au

Investment spam ASIC ASIC
International stockjunk@coldrain.net Investment spam Private clearinghouse Knujon

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Health Claims and Drugs

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
US webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov
Report Unlawful Sales of Medical Products
  FDA FDA
Unlawful Sales of Pharmaceutical Drugs on the Internet   DEA -
UK info@mhra.gsi.gov.uk   MHRA ?
International drugs@interpol.int Illegal drugs or trafficking in prescription drugs across borders Interpol Contact Interpol
International rx@coldrain.net Prescription drug junk Private clearinghouse Knujon

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Cable Signal Theft

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
US ocst@ncta.com   Office of Cable Signal Theft
Toll free: 1-866-774-7229
?

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Taxes

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
US hotline@nocs.insp.irs.gov Threats against IRS

Threats against IRS & employees, attempted bribery, attacks on integrity of tax system... NOT unreported earnings.

Old usenet post

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Software Piracy

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Regional Reporting of Software Piracy

Region Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
International

netpiracy@siia.net
Report Piracy

Software piracy New guise of the SPA SIIA
software@bsa.org   Set subject to 'piracy' BSA
hotline@mpaa.org
Report Piracy
DVD Copying Set subject to 'Anti-Piracy Hotline Report' Was on MPAA
Canada Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft     -
Europe Report Software Piracy to ELSPA Game software piracy   -
UK Federation Against Software Theft     -

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Reporting Software Piracy to Companies

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Adobe piracy@adobe.com     Adobe Piracy
Microsoft piracy@microsoft.com
US or Rest of World   Microsoft Piracy

notheft@microsoft.com

Canada
Symantec / Norton spamwatch@symantec.com
Report Symantec Piracy
    Spammed Symantec / Norton products
Autodesk piracy@autodesk.com
Report Autodesk Piracy
    Autodesk Piracy
Corel nopiracy@corel.com     Corel Piracy
Network Associates / McAfee piracy@nai.com
    NAI Piracy
Quicken info@quicken.com.au   Not specified as piracy address, so set subject to 'piracy' Quicken Piracy
Borland reportpiracy@borland.com
Report Borland Piracy
    Borland Piracy
Sonic

abuse@sonic.com

  Makers of Easy CD & DVD Creator. Was Roxio. Sonic Legal
Alias piracy@alias.com     Alias Piracy
PTC piracy@ptc.com
Report PTC Piracy
    PTC Piracy
Quark cservice@quark.com   Not specified as piracy address, so set subject to 'piracy' Quark Piracy
Ahead Nero legal@nero.com     Nero Terms of Trade
Apple piracy@apple.com     Report Apple Piracy
Filemaker piracy@filemaker.com     Filemaker Legal Notice
Intuit Report Intuit Piracy   Intuit Piracy -

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Forged Headers or Whois

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
AOL aollegal@aol.com See right 1. particularly offensive spam;
2. spam from major spamhausen;
3. spamware offers.
AOL Trademark Guidelines
Any Faked whois information   Internic, part of ICANN -

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Identity Theft

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
US FTC ID Theft Form     -
Consumer.gov ID Theft Form

  -

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Phishing or Spoofing

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All Phishing

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Any reportphishing@antiphishing.org Any phishing email Collecting for statistics, no action taken Report Phishing
report@reportphish.org Clearing house - send as an attachment ReportPhish
Report Phishing URLs to Netcraft
scam@netcraft.com
Commercial anti-phishing toolbar Netcraft
spoof@millersmiles.co.uk Clearing house - send as an attachment MillerSmiles
report@doshelp.com Clearing house DosHelp
Reporting Phishing
fraud@phishfraud.com
Clearing house - send as an attachment Netriplex
scams@fraudwatchinternational.com Private collection, no action taken FraudWatch
Submit Phishing
websubmit@gralicwrap.com
Commercial anti-phishing vendor Gralicwrap
Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination (PIRT) aka Fried Phish Volunteer group -

phishing@coldrain.net

See Terms of Use Knujon

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Phishing for Online Services

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Amazon stop-spoofing@amazon.com     Amazon Stop Spoofing
Yahoo! mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com     Yahoo! Privacy
EBay / PayPal spoof@ebay.com     EBay Spoof Emails
spoof@paypal.com     Paypal Fraud / Spam
US IRS phishing@irs.gov   How to Protect Yourself from Suspicious E-Mails or Phishing Schemes IRS

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Phishing for International Internet Banking

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Visa askvisa@visa.com   Protect your card Spoofed emails from Visa
MasterCard Contact MasterCard   Protect yourself -
Postbank NL

postbank@postbank.nl

  Add a note explaining why you're forwarding a spam to them ?

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Phishing for US Internet Banking

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
All phishing-report@us-cert.gov US Internet Banking Report Phishing US-CERT
Bancorp fraud_help@usbank.com     Bancorp Security
Bank of America / Fleet / LaSalle abuse@bankofamerica.com   E-mail and Online Fraud BoA
Bank of the West abuse@bankofthewest.com   Protect Against Financial Fraud BoW
Banknorth CustomerSecure@banknorth.com   Fraud Prevention BN
BB&T InternetFraud@bbandt.com   Email and Website Fraud BB&T
Citibank emailspoof@citigroup.com   Report a Spoof Citibank
Citizens Bank just gives a phone number  

Important information about online security

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Consumers Bank fraudprevention@consumersbank.com     -
First Merit identitytheft@firstmerit.com   Fraud Prevention Tips FMB
Huntington idtheft@huntington.com   Protect your Identity HNB
Key emailfraud@keybank.com   Online Security Key
MBNA just gives a phone number   Internet Security -
NorthFork InternetSecurity@nfb.com   NFB Online Security Alert NFB
Regions phishing@regions.com   Reporting a Fraud Regions
SouthTrust -   Now merged with Wachovia -
SunTrust

reportfraud@suntrust.com

 

SunTrust Fraud Alert

Suntrust
TCF Bank emailfraud@tcfbank.com   Email Fraud (Phishing) TCF
Wachovia abuse@wachovia.com   Email and Website Fraud Wachovia
Washington Mutual spoof@wamu.com   Email Scams: Phishing WAMU
Wells Fargo How to Report Online Fraud   Protect Yourself from Suspicious Email -
Westpac Banking Corporation spoof@westpac.com.au  

Latest virus information

Westpac
Western Union customerservice@westernunion.com   Consumer Fraud Awareness WU

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Phishing for UK Internet Banking

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
All reports@banksafeonline.org.uk UK Internet Banking Send as attachments, Subject: Reporting a scam BankSafe
Barclays Bank and the Woolwich internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk     Barclays
Nationwide phishing@nationwide.co.uk   Email Fraud Nationwide
NatWest nwolb@natwest.com   Stay Safe Online Natwest
Lloyds TSB emailscams@lloydstsb.co.uk   Phishing LloydsTSB
Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) security@hbosplc.com     HBOS
Alliance & Leicester frauddepartment@alliance-leicester.co.uk   Fraud email A&L
Intelligent Finance onlinesecurity@if.com   Security HBOS
Abbey -   Security -
HSBC -   Phishing -

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Money Mules

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
All mules@lists.castlecops.com   Will be added to public money mule archive. CastleCops

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Premium Rate (Telecoms) Regulators

Country Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
UK Complain to PhonepayPlus

 

PhonepayPlus guidelines -
Australia tissc@tissc.com.au   TISSC code of practice TISSC
Germany info@fst-ev.org     FST-EV
Various Austria: rtr@rtr.at (www.rtr.at/)

This may not be the right contact, and the country may not have a code of practice for premium rate lines.

New Zealand does not have a government imposed code of practice for IPRS [Information Premium Rate Services] or spam. Ministry of Economic Development ?
Belgium: georges.denef@bipt.be (www.bipt.be/)
Italy: info@agcom.it (www.agcom.it/)
Spain: dcpre@cmt.es (www.cmt.es/)
US: gtristan@fcc.gov (www.fcc.gov/)
Chile: mtt@mtt.cl (www.mtt.cl/)
Solomon Islands: commerce@commerce.gov.sb (www.commerce.gov.sb/)
Seychelles Islands: telecoms@seychelles.net (www.seychelles.net/)
St. Helena: patricia@sainthelena.gov.sh (www.sainthelena.gov.sh/)
Kiribati: mict@tskl.net.ki, tkl@tskl.net.ki (www.tskl.net.ki/)
Commonwealth Telecoms Organization: info@cto.int (www.cto.int/)
International Independent Regulators Group     -
Regulatory Authorities for Telecommunication     -

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Search Engine Spam

Company Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email

Yahoo!
AllTheWeb
FAST
Altavista

Report Search Spam   Use Yahoo! index -
Google spamreport@google.com
Google Spam Report
SpamReport Firefox extension
    ?

Ask

information@ask.com
Contact Ask

    ?
Gigablast mwells@gigablast.com     ?
Open Directory Project staff@dmoz.org     ?
Yahoo! Directory Remove Listings     -
General Where to Report Search Engine Spam     -

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Misuse of Certificates and Marks

Trusted Sender Programme membership and use of secure certificates are sometimes falsely claimed by spammers.

Trusted Sender Programmes

Reason Email Address or URL Criteria Notes Source of Email
Habeas

reports@habeas.com

Habeas headers in spam   ?
VeriSign Report Seal Misuse Misuse of VeriSign Seal   -
TRUSTe TRUSTe Seal Trademark Violators Misuse of TRUSTe Seal How to Use a Web-Based Seal -- and Avoid Fakes -
Pharmacy Checker SealProgram@PharmacyChecker.com
Misuse of Pharmacy Checker Seal PharmacyChecker.com Verification Program Pharmacy Checker
HackerSafe abuse@hackersafe.com Misuse of HackerSafe logo   -

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Submitting to Blackhole Lists and Blacklists

DNS Blackhole Lists sometimes accept listings from outside. You should check the DNSBL page to find DNSBLs that take additions.

DNS Blackhole Lists

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