Spam Tracing
| These links should help to give a grounding in tracing spammers. Reading headers is an essential part of tracking spam, so don't forget to read about it. | |
| These resources will help you to understand what the different parts of an email header mean, how that can help you to trace a spammer, and how to get hold of the headers. For automatic report tools, some of which automate some parts of header reading see Spam Reporting Tools. Some of the help also tells you how to access the full HTML message source. | |
| Spammers try to hide various aspects of how their operation is set up, using javascript, dns tricks, specially encoded characters and long streams of redirects - untangle their knots and deobfuscate their layers of misdirection with these tools and tips. | |
| It is possible, although somewhat difficult in practice, to trace the abuser of an open proxy or trojan. | |
| Assorted useful guides to how parts of the Internet work. | |
| You've read about how to trace spammers, but you haven't the tools to do it. Now, you do. | |
| Catch the spammers illegally hijacking your resources. |
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