Hi, Does anyone know of any agencies I can report IP addresses that are spamming me? I look them up in Google and the search brings up Whois, and I guess I can try to contact them, but I am wondering if there is a place that can investigate them? Thanks, Veets

I spent 3 months with an ISP chasing malicious mail & spammers and it was a frustrating experience. The only time I had any real success was when it was a young kid who stupidly used a school PC. Many of the IP's I traced disappeared into East Europe. This does not mean that the spammer was there only that someone has a server and is earning by hosting the spammers. If you can trace it to another ISP they either ignore your complaint or by the time they track the server it is no longer there. The "whois" is really just the start point and it is a long journey after that with a small reward if any. Best of luck, you will certainly need it. That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy

http://www.fbi.gov/ report the ip and tell 'em you suspect one out the top ten wanted list behind this address :-) the next time you visit the perp's web site it may look like THIS: http://72.32.58.190/ Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

Hi, I sent an e-mail to the abuse e-mail on the whois, but I agree, it probably won't do anything. I thought there was an independant agency that documented this stuff. I guess that's why there's a delete button. :-)