David Spector

I get an average of only one to two spam emails a day, because I am careful with how I use my email addresses. They fall into the categories of women wanting to have sex and companies wanting to create Web sites and apps for me. It is clear that there are just two sources of all this spam email, but of course each has registered or stolen many email accounts so a different account is used for each spam email. I've been reporting each spam email to SpamCop for just over two weeks. There has been no reduction in any of this spam email from the beginning until now. The reason is obvious: although SpamCop does a good job of analyzing raw emails and obtaining entities to be recipients of complaints, these entities clearly either don't care or don't have the forensic ability to discover who the real spammers are. Not only that, but test emails that I send to each account reveal that NOT ONE of the actual email accounts sending the spam has been closed/deleted. So big email companies like Gmail are ignoring SpamCop reports, never mind applying forensics. I imagine that when SpamCop was first set up, it was effective. But spammers are smart, and persistent. My conclusion is that, currently, SpamCop reporting is a waste of user time and Internet bandwidth. I look forward to any replies that show that my conclusion is incorrect. David Spector Webmaster