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Where Can I Report Spam Emails Or Illegal Activity?

Check out these sites:

• Spam that is fraudulent – offering products that don’t work or don’t exist, pyramid schemes and so on – can be sent to the US Federal Trade Commission at uce@ftc.gov.
• Spam that promotes stocks can be sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission at enforcement@sec.gov.
• Spam containing or advertising child pornography is illegal in most of the world under existing law. In the US, you can report suspected criminal activity to the Federal Bureau of Investigation via this form. You can also file child-pornography-specific reports with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children here. In Europe, you can report it to Swedish Save the Children; this group is funded by the EU, and British Save the Children refers to it when asked how child pornography is best reported. You can also try inhope, an organization of internet hotline services. In New Zealand, you can report child pornography to the Department of Internal Affairs. Here is a partial worldwide list of reporting addresses for child pornography.If you are not an American or European but have the contact information for the organization in your country that investigates child pornography, please e-mail it to us.
• Unfortunately, while sending spam containing regular pornography to your children is probably illegal, no agency is charged with investigating this particular area.
• Chain letters that ask for money, whether for “reports” or just straight up, are illegal in the US whether they are in postal mail or e-mail. Report these frauds to your local US Postmaster.
• You may see e-mail coming from Nigeria or another African country, sent by someone who wants to use your bank account to transfer 20 million dollars. This is called a ‘419’ scam and people have been killed over it. Do not answer.  If you are British, see the London Metropolitan Police’s alert.
• Want to find out where a spammer’s web server IP address or domain name is located? Check out this site. Once you have the IP address for the domain name go to this site, http://ws.arin.net/whois/ and enter the IP address in the search box.  It will give you the name and the department to send your spam or illegal activity complaint to.