Reporting spam is useful only if the recipient of your report can analyze the full headers of the spam email you received. If you don't know how to show full headers of an email in the email client or web mail application you are using, you can find instructions for a large number of programs and applications on this helpful page: How to Get Full Headers in Your Software. (The WHO@ site has more helpful information you may want to look at.)
Reporting addresses are organized by type of spam.
Note that country is specified only when that is part of the criteria for reporting to the email address given; the country code is mentioned in the same column: if a spam contains a phone number, that makes it easier to recognize which country it relates to (some countries share a country code). If no country is mentioned, origin of spam and origin of reporter don't play a role in reporting. When a web site has content in English those pages are referenced here.
Some organizations prefer reporting through a web-based form or provide no other mechanism; with a few exceptions you'll find them mentioned here only if they also have an email address for reporting spam.
Please also check the '419 or "Nigerian" scams' and 'General spam and country-specific reporting addresses' pages!
| Organization | Email address | Country code |
Criteria | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polizia di Stato - Polizia Postale Informatica | poltel.roma@mininterno.it | Italy 39 |
Report scams originating from an Italian IP address or giving a phone number in Italy (country code 39) | If you are in Italy, select your local area contact email from the map on the web page; otherwise the Rome address or poltel.milano@mininterno.it (Milan region) would be the best bet. |
| Dutch national police | voorlichting@klpd.politie.nl | Netherlands 31 |
If there's a Dutch connection: sent through a Dutch ISP, or giving a Dutch phone number (country code 31). Note that if an address in the Netherlands is given, it's invariably fake, even if the phone/fax number is real: ignore any address when deciding whether there's a Dutch connection. | Email address as yet unconfirmed. |
| South African Police Commercial Branch | commercialbranch@commercialbranch.com | South Africa 27 |
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Additions and corrections are welcomed. Please provide a reference to a web page or other evidence that the owner of the email address actually wants to receive spam reports; also specify reporting criteria when known. Reporting spam to an address that isn't set up to handle that particular type of spam will hinder rather than help!