Directory of Tracking Resources

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This category is for utilities or information intended to help users track spam back to its sender.

Resources in This Category

• Adcomplain

  http://www.rdrop.com/users/billmc/adcomplain.html
  A Perl script to automate spam complaints.

• alt.spam FAQ or "Figuring Out Fake E-Mail & Posts"

  http://fuzzo.com/spam_faq.htm
  Describes how to find out where a fake post or e-mail originated from.

• EmailAbuse.org

  http://www.emailabuse.org/
  Tips to help identify and report email abuse.

• eMailTrackerPro

  http://www.visualware.com/personal/products/emailtrackerpro/index.html
  Helps identify the true source of e-mails, to help identify and report spammers. Analyzes e-mail headers and provides the IP Address of the machine that sent the e-mail.

• Exterminating Spammers Step-By-Step

  http://www.camblab.com/nugget/extermin.htm
  Describes procedures and basic tools that recipients can use to report senders of unsolicited commercial email.

• Figuring out fake E-Mail & Posts

  http://home.digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html
  A guide on how to track down the source of the spam.

• Mail Parsing & Tracking

  http://www.levinecentral.com/mail_parse/default.aspx
  Displays visual email routing and the time taken to go from server to server, allowing each mail server hop to then be queried against common spam blacklists.

• net.demon

  http://www.netdemon.net/
  Downloadable software to trace the sender of an e-mail and locate the spammer's real web site.

• Spam Tracking Page

  http://www.rahul.net/falk/
  A collection of tools to help track spam.

• SpamCop

  http://spamcop.net/
  Will help find the sender of a spam and an address to send a complaint to.

• Stop Spam FAQ

  http://www.mall-net.com/spamfaq.html
  How to find a spammer and how to respond to spam.

• The SPAM-L FAQ - Tracking Spam

  http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/
  Instructions for reading e-mail headers and complaining to the spammer's ISP.

• The Spamhaus Project

  http://www.spamhaus.org/
  Tracks known Spam Support Services and lists the ISPs who keep organized spamming alive; includes news, block list and ROKSO, the Register Of Known Spam Operations.

• What to do about Unwanted/Offensive Email

  http://www.oitc.com/Disney/WhatToDo.html
  Explains in detail how to track and complain about spam.

 

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