How to Permanently Stop Spam with SpamCop.
If you want to learn how to stop spam then this is where you want to be. If you are receiving tons of spam emails that you never asked for and you cannot filter them with programs like Spam Assassin, you can permanently stop spam by submitting them to SpamCop . SpamCop is a DNS blacklisting company that can blacklist the spammers hosting company’s email IP address. Most email service providers use the known blacklists found at sites like MX Toolbox. When an email server is put on a blacklist, the server that was sending the spam will no longer be able to send emails.
We are a hosting company that provides space for individuals to create their website and manage their email on our server. We do not submit spam to DNS blacklisting companies. The owner of the domain and/or the account holder are responsible for managing their own email and website activity per our Terms of use.
The CAN-SPAM Act has guidelines for legitimate email marketing. On the CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business site, emails are unacceptable and considered spam if they:
Have false or misleading header information Have deceptive subject lines Are not identified as an add Do Not tell recipients where they are located If there are no opt out links to stop future emails Do not promptly process opt-out requests If the emails are from Unmonitored marketing companies.
Stopping spammer activities is not only helpful for you, but also helps others that are getting spam from the same originating server. Lets go through the steps on how to submit spam to SpamCop.
Permanently stopping Spam with SpamCop.
Visit SpamCop and click the Report Spam tab at the top left.
Important! Reporting spam is a serious accusation against a company and is not be taken lightly. If spam is reported that is not spam, you will be viewed negatively by spamcop and may be denied their services.
The only difference between a paid and free account you have to wait.
6 seconds between each spam submittal. Enter your Full name and your Email address and click the Send authorization email button.
You will receive an email (at the email that was entered in their form) from SpamCop with the login instructions to use their service. Once you receive the login information, login to SpamCop .
Once you get the email saved to your desktop, open the email in a text editor like Notepad. The email should look like the snapshot to the right.
You can make a canned response and save it in a text document that says :
When the spam is submitted to them, they will give you a link that will have a form to email the sending spammers hosting company.
Important! On the send spam reports page, pay attention to the Please make sure this email IS spam: header information. SpamCop will display the information taken from the spam email that was sent. In this case, the email is clearly a spam email. the following is shown:
Click the Send Spam Report(s) Now button.
Once you submit that to spam to them, the sending spammer will be added to the Spamcop DNS blacklist and they will not be able to email anyone after that. SpamCop encourages email administrators to submit spam to them as they help not only their own interest in stopping spam, but, other spam companies as well. For more information on spam, please check the last article on SPF Records and Domain Keys: Combating Spam or our course on Preventing Spam – Everything Email.
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I am getting unusual and unnecessary mail in my webmail, I even remove my contact form but still, i am getting heaps of junk mail in my webmail. I do not have the control panel access as the hosting company holds it.
I am just wondering if there is any way to control and stop getting spam mail in my webmail, your suggestion would be highly appreciated.
hello john paul,
My emails are constantly sent as spam to my clients. Also i checked my spam score. Some are 9 and some are 6. I believe with such scores, it’ll be sent to spam.
It would be great help if you can guide me to lower my spam score so that i can send my email as normal email not spam.
Waiting for your response.
I have had Inmotionhosting for about two years, and have not had a problem until about a week ago. I took your advice and did a search on my email address and made the appropriate changes. I went through the sender addresses and found a common 4-digit element, created a rule in Outlook that sends email with this element to the junk file (with exceptions for the small possibility that they may be work related). It has worked so far!
Most email spam comes from Domain Name Registration. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been stopped years ago.
To those complaining about 25-50 spams a day, you are LUCKY! I get several hundred and waste a lot of time marking them as junk.
The thing is, I moved to IMH from GoDaddy because of the better email pricing. All of my employees are complaining now about the dramatic increase in spam since switching to IMH. Why the difference?
I guess I could get the McAfee program, but at several $$ per month x 20 accounts it adds up to over $500/year! Might have to go back to Godaddy?
I too started getting 30-50 spam emails per day on 4 of my 30 email accounts hosted by InMotion Hosting. I started using Cloudmark Desk One for spam filtering and it catches about 99% of them. I used this same product back in the ’90’s before the put all those spammers in jail. Guess they dont do that anymore. Either way, last summer/fall something changed at InMotion Hosting to where these 4 accounts started getting relentless spam. I’ll probably go thru the time and hassle of changing email addresses sometime this year to make it go away.
Getting too much Spam? How to Permanently stop specific individual email addreeses spam with SpamCop until they rotate addresses or domains and then start again”. Though that would be a bit lengthy it is more accurate. We completely understand about the spam and agree with your stance. Hopefully you are making an impact and I hope there are others out there with the same conviction. This article surely does not fix the issue, but was made in hopes that if enough people know how to submit these reports to SpamCop then maybe it will have some impact.
Actually, you can just remove the word “Permanently”. I agree with FJC and although I do not get close to 700 emails, my main email to my business is being attacked daily as well. I’ve changed passwords, etc. but b/c I need my email and it’s printed on everything I have, it’s not easy to just change it. I’ve had it for over 5 years and all my clients send to it.
These spammer cartels as FJC put it are just as malicious as theives or even terrorists! They steal time and resources and hijacking domains and servers not to mention everything they send is usually a scam. There will never be an end to spammers. The gov’t does not or never will have the resources to put towards doing something about this. Nor do private entities. The ICANN Act is a joke unlease of coarse you are a law abiding citizen. Criminals don’t care about some Act or law. You can only fight hackers with hackers. That’s what they are! And until enough good ones get together and start tracking their resources and fighting fire with fire, nothing will be accomplished.
Your responses that SpamCop is a nuisance is not what I said. SpamCop is extremely helpful and effective. SpamCop does not block desired email. I can tell very clearely that you represent the spamming cartel, and you are trying to disparage the efforts of SpamCop. I continue spending three dedicated hours daily sending out spam reports to SpamCop because they are the absolutely best defense from constand spam bombardment of up to 700 spam per day, each and every day for the past three years.
Note: SpamCop does not effect desired email in any way, shape, or form. They are my best defense againd the massibe spam bombardment of the spamming cartels. The spamming cartels use rolling domains, and their opt-out do not work as a violation of the Can-Spam Act. Please do not twist my words against SpamCop. They are my only defense angainst the spamming cartels.
Who are you replying too? You may want to reread my comment again. I was agreeing with you. I didn’t mention Spamcop one time in my response. I’ve used Spamcop as well to no avail. I’ve actually spent a lot of time sending them emails to, but it doesn’t work. If IPs are revolving and the IP that the spammer uses does not show in the email header, the host cannot track down the source because they are not a client and there’s nothing they can do. I just keep sending the spam to the junk folder. What I have noticed is that I don’t get spam on the weekends. So I can tell that these are humans with weekday jobs sitting in a cubical producing illegal activity. Spamcop is about the best resource, but it is still limited.
My primary address is getting constant spam from various senders all at .co.at. There seems to be no mechanism in Yahoo Mail to block this domain or country (Austria) Any suggestions?
Click on Options , upper right corner of mail page.
Click on Spam from the list on the left.
In the Add a blocked address box , enter the domain. The domain is the part of the email address after address AFTER the @ . Leave out the @ symbol).
My Yahoo block list is completely full with 500 blocked spam limit. Yet, I receive up to 700 spam per day. I am positive that Yahoo Support in the Philippines gave out my email address to the spamming cartels. They also forced me to change my password, and immediately my email was spoofed. I immediately changed my password, and the spoofing has stopped except for several spamming companies selling viagra.
With spamcop, the good people get punished for what bad people do. How does that help? Spamcop is horrible. People who have done nothing wrong (concerning email) should not have to do work to just get an email sent. Besides, the rejection email that they receive back from spamcop is very confusing, and from experience, most people don’t even have any clue why their email isn’t going through. They almost always think it’s a problem with the person they are trying to send it to, and so they just give up right away.
The problem is, unless the person who’s email was rejected continuously tries to get ahold of you, you don’t even know who all is not getting their email through to you.
Yes, but the people who are doing nothing wrong are still getting punished for what others do. Therefore, Spamcop is flawed big time and should not be used. That is why we should have the option of using, or not using spamcop. If nothing else, you could have a seperate server to place everyone who requests to not use spamcop. I know I’m not the only IMH user who has complained about spamcop for the same reasons.
Agreed. Spamcop is more of a nuisance sometimes. Big spammers are not blocked by it because they probably never send from the same server twice. So spamcop ends up blocking the people who are not offenders but staying on one IP address.
I moved my company’s web hosting, domain registration and email over to Inmotion. Now I’m getting 25 spam emails a day and so are my two employees. Why? I got none when we were with Network Solutions.
Also, I run a business. I don’t have time to read your endless tutorials and jump through the hoops you suggest to stop the spam. What can you do to help me and why did all of this start when we swithced to Inmotion??
SpamCop is making troubles for our German clients and business partners using the biggest provider t-online.de because of too much wrong positive results.
How to deactivate the use of SpamCop totally or at least how to change from blocking incoming mails without further notice to us to filtering the tagged mails to a junk folder?
See SpamCops own description:
“The SCBL is aggressive and often errs on the side of blocking mail. When implementing the SCBL, provide users with the information about how the SCBL and your mail system filter their email. Ideally, they should have a choice of filtering options. Many mailservers operate with blacklists in a “tag only” mode, which is preferable in many situations.” Source: http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml.
1. Log into the WHM.
2. Select ‘Service Configuration’
3. Select ‘Exim Configuration Manager’
4. Select the ‘RBL’ tab.
5. Set the ‘SpamCop’ option to off.
VPS and Dedicated are too expensive. To pay that much extra just to have to option to disable something is out of the question for many of us. Everyone’s account is already on a particular server, couldn’t you just move all the accounts that want it disabled onto the same server, and disable it for all of them?
This is not true. We configured Spamassassin to our specifications and within a month InMotion Hosting disabled Spamassassin on our account due to processor overload. So the statement ‘Each client is allowed to tailor Spamassin to their needs’ is not correct. More like each client is allowed to tailor Spamassassin as long as our servers can handle the configuration. Disabling Spamassassin on our account cost our company quite a bit in trying to find a 3rd party filtering service, countless spam attacks, and the embaressment I suffered after I told everyone here our email problems would get better.
I agree Randy. I actually had my IP blacklisted by Apple and Microsoft when I tried to email my clients. InMotion had to get it delisted. This was a huge inconvience as it held up my business. I am now receiving at least 25 spam emails A day. I am getting them sometimes as fast as I can delete them. I have Dkim set and also Spam Assasain and it’s not working. I don’t have time to keep weeding out spam. This didn’t happen when I first switched to InMotion, but it’s become a real problem. So what can be done InMotion? I don’t have time to submit individual emails to Spam Cop. They are also all different from random robot email adresseses. You can’t filter this crap.
> I actually had my IP blacklisted by Apple and Microsoft when I tried to email my.
Your MX server (0 creationgraphx.com 23.235.213.39 )
is missing PTR at:
That can get you blacklisted.
Also, your certificate (COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA) is good through Thu, 23 Feb 2017 but has a Common names mismatch.
*.servconfig.com versus creationgraphx.com.
and is classified as not trusted.
Your server is using three insecure cipher suites, has no BEAST mitigation, uses (insecure) RC4 and does not guarantee forward secrecy. You are vulnerable to more than just spam.
I hope this helps.
> I am now receiving at least 25 spam emails A day.
> I have Dkim set and also Spam Assasain and it’s not working.
> I don’t have time to keep weeding out spam. This didn’t happen.
> when I first switched to InMotion, but it’s become a real problem.
> So what can be done InMotion? I don’t have time to submit.
> individual emails to Spam Cop.
I agree, this makes little sense with so much spam. Feel free to ping me on Twitter.
at @RealPro4Real or @CloudInsidr and perhaps we can help.
For others drowning in spam, a couple of fixes are described here:
“Anti-Spam Defense: Postfix, With smtpd Access Restrictions, Unplugged”
I agree Randy! I had a friend that hosted my site for 5 years. Once I switched to InMotion I started get Junk/spam mail. I get at least 25-40 a day. Everyday except weekends (hmm that’s odd). Do spambots take off on the weekends? I’ve jumped through all the hoops and nothing! I keep sending everything to Junk, but because the IP changes and is ghosted, it really doesn’t help. InMotion says it’s not there fault. I do find that only my main email address is getting junk. None if the others I have under my domain are. So it’s hard to point the finger, but I am just relating it to the server switch. Kind if like when you get a flu shot and they say you want get sick, but you do and they say it wasn’t because of the shot. It was because you already had a virus. Like someone already had my email and waited till I switched to start spamming. Just hard for me to believe that.
I deleted my Wix account. How did you find this and what can I do to remove it? I suppose I need to remove from social media sites and have all submissions through a form. My issue is social media requires emails and are usually exposed to the public even on secure servers. Especially if they are gathered by actual humans now. And I do use Captcha on my forms.
Update: Now my 2nd out of 5 emails are receiving spam. I guess I’m going to have to remove ALL emails from public listings. What’s the point if having them if you can’t give them out. Ridculous!!
I agree with Matt and all the other users, as soon as I switched to InMotion the amount of daily Spam tripled. The main reason I switched ISP’s was, precisely, to reduce the amount of Spam I get in my email accounts. The only help the InMotion staff offers is to read tutorials on end. I switched because I’m too busy to have to do all that. I don’t have an IT department to deal with spam. From the looks of it, I’ll probably have to look for another hosting service.
No. I’m not getting enough legit emails because of Spamcop.
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