Spam Wars - The Tools

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The Spam Wars pages are a rather detailed guide on how to deal with Spam, or junk email.  I created this page to allow an experienced user who knows how to properly dissect the header of an email and then use the tools described on the Spam Wars pages to track down the spammer's ISP to send a complaint.  Remember the term "Spam" as it is used for junk email actually has it's origins in a Monty Python comedy routine, and doesn't have anything to do with the actual product, Spam.

Tools for complaint writing and addressing:
Here is a short example of a complaint to send to a spammer's ISP.  You start your complaint message with this short note, then follow it with the complete header information, then the body of the message (the actual spam). A table of ISP complaint addresses that I've compiled.  To get on the list, I must have had to complain to the ISP more than once from work, or I got junk mail from their servers at home.  The table will pop up in a separate window.
Also see the list of ISP's who don't tolerate spam at spam.abuse.net for addresses not in my table.

Tools for spammer tracing:
Help for the tools shown can be accessed by using the  button
Consumer.Net's Tools:
Traceroute+
Choose Server: Convert from base 10
NSLookup
IP Address, regular or base-10: Convert from base 10

name.space NSLookup/Whois
IP address or domain name to trace (no base-10 conversion available)

Additional Resources:
Web Site Search:
Enter a website address, such as www.somewebsite.com or somewebsite.com
Search for owner of Email Address:
Enter an email address to reverse-search for the owner using the databases of Bigfoot, Infospace,  and WhoWhere?
Email Address to Finger:
Enter an email address (user@hostname.com, for example):
 
Reverse Phone Number Search: 
Enter phone number in the format of area code-prefix-postfix (XXX-XXX-XXXX, include the area code)
Search Results Window Frame Key:
Residential (Infospace) Business (Infospace)
Fax (Infospace) Residential (AnyWho)