Spamcop.net

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.

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.

Where to begin. Both are underdeveloped, missing too many usable clues to the real culprits. On the sender side, almost always concludes it is the recipient's own email servers that initiated the spam, but anyone knows that's rarely if ever the case. On the link side, it gets worse. Many links now are either redirects (often multiple redirects to final host URL), or use simple Hex encoding that should be child's play to decode.

Yet Spamcop does neither. Hex encoded or even partially encoded links (the ones it %nn%nn... to replace text characters) come back as unidentified. Boggles the mind that these aren't resolved into a text link that can reveal the host site. Another failure is to examine links for redirects to find the final target, again revealing the host site. Yet another failure is to convert shortened URLs ("tinyurls" like bit.ly, goo. Gl, cntr. Click, etc.) to their full URL link, and reveal the host site.

These are not difficult to do. There are dozens of external sites that can do both the Hex and tinyurl conversions. But do you really want to have to manually do all this on the side, substituting it back into the spam text before submitting to SpamCop, just so SpamCop can do its job? This is not rocket science for SpamCop, or if it is, someone is completely asleep at the wheel.

And what is up with all the devnull abuse reports, essentially saying no abuse report actually went to the offending host site, but just went to File 13 as a "statistical report". Well, that is a waste of time and effort for the user, because now you have to package up your own abuse report with the message and headers, and send it yourself. Sort of a thanks for nothing.

In the end, it looks like someone started something at SpamCop that spammers have long since found how to work around, rendering the use of the site limited at best. Is it just a dying cash cow, with no new development? Are they that unaware of their own failures to resolve links that are barely hidden? All I can say is, only the most amateur of spam mailers will get reported by SpamCop. But those newbie spammers must not be aware of well-circulated but simple tricks to thwart SpamCop's analysis. At which point, you have to ask, what good is this site except to make you think it is your weapon in the war on spam and phishing, and please send them money?

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 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.

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'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.

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 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 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.

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!

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...

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.

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."

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.

Blocking legit emails and getting the email back is pain... waste of time.

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?

I dont know where or how i got the spam emails, but i was getting them from everywhere, Primark, bit coin, funeral services, and dozens of other places. I have obviously clicked a link to accept cookies somewhere! I was getting about 50 junk emails a day! At first i reported them in gmail to junk but i didnt want them at all! I was very fortunate to come across this when i googled how to stop spam emails. So i tried it and sent all the junk email address's into this program but still they spam emails kept coming. I thought the program just was not going to work, but after about a week maybe less YIPEE! Woke up on a morning checked my emails and NONE in my spam inbox! It worked im very impressed and utterly thankful for the program. I highly recommend this program to anyone who is unfortunate to get horrible spam!

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..

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.

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 changed over from Spam Arrest, which I wasn't completely happy with to SpamCop. I set it up and it seemed to be working. Then I went to bed and woke up to find I had no emails. Strange. I get many. I got a Skype message from an associate that my emails had been bouncing back to him. I heard from others who told me the same thing. So I went back to Spam Arrest and emailed SpamCop with my issue. No reply. I emailed them 3 times. Still no reply. Now it's a week later. I have twice emailed asking for a refund and still no reply. This service sucks!

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.