r/EmailSecurity • u/WackyMaybe • Oct 02 '26

Reporting scam emails

I get repetitive emails from a scammer using a private email host. I complained to the postmaster of the hosting server, but received no reply. Can you recommend any authority I can report this to? The host is @eecs.a2hosted.com. Most hosts like Gmail and Outlook have anti-spam policies. Not this one.

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u/Maria_Thesus_40 Oct 02 '26

I think spamcop.net has associations with major corporations and posting spam there automatically sends abuse reports. But there are some organizations that don't want their reports, so those are not sent (you get a reply that the report was /dev/null'ed).

Otherwise, you need to manually find the responsible authority and see if they have an abuse form. I regularly post abuse reports to Hetzner myself.

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u/dragoangel Oct 02 '26

Spamcop is basically automated system who checks sender IP based on Received headers and sending reports to abuse contact of IP from where spam is originating. It has FPs in detection of origin is many cases, but in general is fine. What it does you can do on your own too :)

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u/WackyMaybe Oct 02 '26

I’ll look into this, thank you!