Spamcop.netReviews 9

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.

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.

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 am desperately trying to find an ISP that does NOT use Spam Cop or a similar service. This company has caused me to lose business contracts by intercepting vital, legitimate emails, and they don't even have the balls to put an email address or phone number on line to make themselves accountable to me. I have NEVER authorized Spam Cop to filter my emails. I have emphatically told my ISP several times that I do not want them doing it. They tell me they've turned Spam Cop off, and then next thing I know, somebody else forwards me a returned message saying Spam Cop intercepted their email. I have now fired three ISPs because of their use of Spam Cop. If anybody knows a company that offers domain hosting that does NOT use Spam Cop or a similar service. Please post it hear. I'm begging you. I'm desperate.

I have used spamcop's free reporting for years but never knew if it was really helping until I tested it for myself. Who hasn't received an email from a scammer calling themselves Farida Waziri, a real person who is the Executive Chairperson of the Nigerian EFCC? I certainly have, dozens of them. Spamcop will probably not appreciate me doing this but one time I decided to string one of these scammers along while also reporting them. I would make up tale after tale as to why I had not yet been able to send them their "fee" to release my millions of dollars. Sometimes it was several days before they replied. They said they kept having problems with their email account and had to reregister (thanks to spamcop's reporting, no doubt). By the time I finally tired of toying with them and told them I had only been doing so to waste their time, their return email address was Farrrrida Waziiiiri. So yes, reporting to spamcop does get results but can't really stop these devils, nothing can. They just reregister using a different name or, as in this case, just add a few more letters to the name they're using. Still, it wasted some of their time, time that might have been used emailing someone else who was more gullible than me who could have fallen into their trap.