[Scspamcop] Re: Gmail URL to report advance-fee fraud

Patto nobody at devnull.spamcop.net
Sun Nov 4 21:52:06 EST 2007


Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got an advance-fee fraud spam today, with a Gmail.com address in the 
> body. This is a first for me. As usual, the reporting of these manually 
> is always convoluted administratively, since standard abuse approaches 
> state that if the "headers don't include gmail.com links then the spam 
> didn't originate here..."
> 
> So, I larted "abuse at gmail.com" with full headers. I got an auto-reply 
> that mentioned reporting the abuse using a web site. I navigated through 
> the pages, and found the best place (in my opinion) to report 
> advance-fee (419) scams that include Gmail.com addresses:
> 
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_other

I report such things here 
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_security2

The end-effect is probably the same.


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