SPAM - Eeeeeecck!

Trying to report spam thinking it's going to reduce the amount you get is like pushing water uphill.

I use Mailwasher, the Pro (paid) version, although there's a free version that does a pretty good job for 1 email address.

It has a learning curve, I created videos to show how I set mine up, here's a link in case you find it helpful:

How to delete and block spam email - Free video tutorial walkthroughs and training

(It checks email while it's still on the server, identifies about 98% of mine a pre-checks it for deletion, I click "delete", then download my real email immediately afterwards.)

Another option is to redirect your email to your gmail account (note to self: set up a gmail account first) and let gmail auto-filter your email for you)

There's also video in the link above showing how to configure gmail to import your email from another account to delete spam that way. You can either then email from the gmail interface and have the "from" be your original email address, or you can THEN download the post-scrubbed email from gmail back into Outlook or whatever you use.

It might sound confusing, but I know people who swear by it.

good luck.

Just delete it and forget it. There are spam-friendly ISPs out there, so, many times if not most of the time, you'll just be wasting your time.

I used to try to battle spam, but it's an uphill battle and my time is better spent doing other things. I'd like to get rid of it too, but you'll probably spend less time deleting it than tracking them down and trying to get ISPs to shut them out.

I agree, trying to fight something like Spam will only give you more headaches in the end.

A Spam Blocker will help but I haven't seen any that are 100% effective. Plus as is the case for many websites and marketers, email that you want to read may end up being labeled as spam.

Good luck

Robert

Yeah, that's what I thought, but then again, if anyone would know how to throw a monkeywrench at Spammers, it would be a Warrior!! Thanks everyone, I'll just keep deleting and fuming.

If you really want to try, look at the headers of the spam emails that you receive and identify the IP addresses of every server that mail has passed through. Then identify who is responsible for each IP address and then send a spam complaint to the abuse address of each of them. Once in a while you may get a spammer shut down but they will very quickly move on somewhere else. Unfortunately, we are all fighting a losing battle.

By the way, do not take action against the spam's from address as it was almost certainly forged.