Spamcop should be used by any admin that wants to help fight spam in general. We're all in it together and any report helps. Not sure what the nay-sayers are expecting from a service to report spam to, but I don't think they get what it's for..
So much for spam cop. This morning I replied to one of our sub-contractor's emails and Spam Cop immediately sent me a message saying I was blocked because of being spam. How do they expect their customers to do business with anyone if they block legitimate emails?
I report all kinds of stupid spam / scam emails through Spamcop.net.
There are free and paid options that you can use. I usually report scam emails through the free service.
On a side note someone has registered "spamcop.com". Its a small site trying to sell software listed on ebay?
Been using for less than a week, and already, my Spam, which had become totally unmanageable -- 100s each day, including dozens of new ones. Got fewer than 15 all day today. Have purchased few dollars of extra fuel, happily, but don't think I really needed it, although the submissions did speed up a lot. Highly recommend using this site if you're overwhelmed by spam.
I've been using the free version of SpamCop for years and have never seen any less spam, quite the opposite (and not blaming Spamcop for this) I am experiencing loads of spam lately. Waste of time, reporting, etc, and when you report through the email they provide, the email come back saying is not spam, when clearly is...
Reporting spam on Spamcop's site doesn't do a single thing to diminish the amount of spam you receive. Sure, the reporting feature appears to work as intended, and does most likely email the relevant providers about spam, but you'll continue to get the same amount of spam from the same sources. Over a period of many months, I've seen increases and decreases in the amount of spam I get on any given day, but continually reporting it on Spamcop hasn't had any impact at all.
Don't bother reporting your spam on Spamcop, because the only thing it does is waste your time.
For the average internet user, spamcop is too complex with all those complex instructions is definitely user-unfriendly. I got tons of Canadian pharmacy viagra spam or as they call it unsolicited email and whenever I forward the spam to them I get an error message that no spam was found, well genius, with an email address like *******@mail.com sending you VIAGRA spam, what else can it be? I never approved to have sent said spam emails to my address. While tired of the $#*! and trying to report the spam, I found out I already used this service once in the past, since I already had an account. I suddenly remembered I got the same erroneous results back that time too. So basically, I really do not like the site and I don't intend to use it ever again. I'll give it 2 stars for the benefit of a doubt, that once learned it's efficient, but I don't intend to dedicate myself so much to figure out something made so user-unfriendly. It kinda repells me.
For sure, SpamCop has no interest in writing software to direct complaints to the appropriate abuse email addresses that are easily found on the web.
My guess is that SpamCop IT programmers and staff just sit around smoking marijuana all day and at 3:30 pm go zooming to the farthest bar in their brand new Tesla and have sex.
These guys have to be the very laziest people on the planet.
The only report they send is to *******@hotmail.com.
I found these IP addresses in the report I sent: 194. 72. 6. 62,81.144.232.66. Both belong to bt.com. It turns out that bt.com actually has a complaint email: *******@bt.com.
SpamCop did not send anything to them.
Very few of the one hundred or so reports I sent showed that SpamCop passed the report to anyone except hotmail.com. Well, hotmail.com isn't going to do anything. Their response is always that it isn't their server sending the spam, so they can't do anything about it.
I feel like I am wasting my time. I had better luck before when I used other WHOIS websites and contacted the ISP directly. I have spent hours sending in 1000s of Spam Mails and to be honest the volume of Spam from the same providers has increased 3-4 times. Iccloml. Loan is the most infamous... now getting 50-100 a day from "Alex"... based in China not sure what Spamcop can do other than tell them that I am an active email account so... send me more.
Went from receiving 30-40 spam emails a day (individual user) to ZERO for the last week!
Took me a month or so of diligent reporting and learning that reporting spam from Russian ISPs only generated more spam. But now I'm virtually spam free!
Couldn't be more pleased!
While I admire the purpose of this service, I feel that it's of little use in actually reporting spam anymore since more and more of the reports I submit end up only being forwarded to 'devnull' addresses, meaning that they're only collected for statistical uses rather than being forwarded to the email service providers from which the spam messages originated.
If the primary purposes of submitting the reports is to have the service providers be made aware of the spam being generated, then this service is unlikely to be of any use/consequence.
I used SpamCop.com and they claimed I was reporting things that were not spam. I have not idea what I submitted that was not spam. I called to get some help on the issue and spoke to a very RUDE lady who offered no help. They closed my account, so now I support the spamers!
Cisco System who now owns Spamcop can care less about the site. The site is worthless and does absolutely nothing to stop spam. Don't waste your time here
I paid for the spamcop email address, as well as having paid fuel to these $#*!s. Never received any confirmation, could not login. Then, I tried to find a contact address. If they are so good at stopping spam, they at least ought to have some sort of means to contact them on their website. When I finally contacted them, I was treated like an idiot nuisance child by an idiot. They claim there was nothing wrong on their side.
I run a small security company and got an email from my IT support provider, when I replied it returned to me stating that SpamCop has me on their blacklist so my email is now no longer allowed to get through to my IT service provider.
Now I don't even do any email marketing and send out only a few emails daily, so how on earth can I be on some supposed blacklist.
I've been using it for years but it seems to do absolutely NOTHING about the spam problem. They don't even tell you what is done with the reports. In some cases they refuse to get the reports to the appropriate ISP, meaning you just wasted your entire effort. I'm almost done with them because it seems like all the benefit goes to SpamCop and zero benefit goes to me (who is doing all the actual work). They need to be a little more forthcoming about what is actually done with the reports you send to them, besides wasting the time of the people doing the reporting. They need to be a little more active in blacklisting the servers that generate spam, especially those which are sending spam that is attempting to extort money via BitCoin. The stupid ISPs who can't get their act together should get out of the business they're in if they can't maintain a halfway decent level of security on their mail servers and not whine to SpamCop if they are blacklisted.
I hate spam like many people do. All you do is right click on the spam email, hit view message source, copy, then paste it onto the Spamcop site and it tells you what ISP it came from and sends an abuse report for you. It'll also tell you who hosts and offending links in the spam. It's a free site, but they'll bug you for donations.
Initially, I did receive fewer and fewer spam emails after signing up for SpamCop and forwarding all the spam I received. Unfortunately, they changed their system and stopped having any affect.
It's time to BlackList SpamCop! All GoDaddy users being blocked?!
SpamCop has deliberately blocked my email - even though we have not done anything that violates their policy AND the IP address that they
Are supposedly blocking is not ours!
After and sending me a nasty notice telling me that my IP address has been blocked, and wasting my time researching the problem, I discover
That SpamCop does not even have the right IP address!
Instead it turns out that SpamCop is blocking a global list of GoDaddy addresses that also use the same mail server.
This means that SpamCop has Blacklisted our emails for reasons that are not within our control, and not our responsibility. SpamCop
Deliberately interferes with legitimate business.
It's time to BlackList SpamCop! Stop paying for an arbitrary, unreliable, "protection racket."
I have been using SpamCop for years, and I have honestly come to the conclusion that it is a big waste of time. Nobody that gets reported stops spamming me. Nothing happens. It is a big fraud.
Answer: Because spamcop only wants your $15. They do not actually do anything with your complaint.
Spamcop.net has a rating of 2.3 stars from 29 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Spamcop.net ranks 197th among IT Services sites.