Dave_L

There's no need for compliments either. We're all in this together. Teamwork!

I'm glad I could help clarify the situation. There no need for thanks.

As a business, Google's priority is to make money, not help us avoid spam.

One possibility is to "munge" the information you don't want revealed, before Spamcop parses it.

May you recover from your health issues and have the strength to continue deleting forum spam for the next 20 years!!!

I now see that you mentioned Mailhosts in your original post. Sorry ?

Do you have Mailhosts configured? https://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/397.html

By "resolved", do you mean that the RECAPTCHA was replaced by a better CAPTCHA, and that the forum spam is minimized or eliminated?

I look forward to seeing their upcoming final report, if it provides more details.

It may make sense to conceal some of the details of what's being worked on. But when the people doing that work remain anonymous and never communicate with the Spamcop users, it's hard to remain confident in the system.

HTTPS encrypts data during its transmission between client and destination server. If the destination server, i.e. the site, is hacked, any data there is available to the hacker, regardless of whether HTTPS or HTTP was used.

The relationship, if any, between epl.paypal-communication.com and paypal.com seems to be a mystery. Related topic: http://forum.spamcop.net/topic/16764-paypal-settlement-scam/ I did some web searching, but couldn't find a clear answer.

Please post the Tracking URL, which appears near the top of the page of the Spamcop output. That will let us see the email headers, as well as the full text of the email.

That Amazon thing is a non-issue. It was tied to a feature I didn't use, well-publicized, easy to disable, and no longer exists. What are the "others"?

Off topic: Is there actual evidence that Canonical does that? I remember an issue involving web tracking, but that setting could be turned off. I'm currently using Xubuntu 16.04. I avoid Google's search engine, and use Duck Duck Go instead.