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How to Report Spam Emails

Wouldn't it be nice if you could report spam emails automatically?
Well you can. You can take back control of your emails. If you use a Macintosh you can automate the reporting of your spam emails completely. If you have a PC you can get set up with "quick" reporting.

This is what you need to do.

1. You need to find out about spam emails. See links below.

2. Register with SpamCop and ask to be set up with "quick" reporting.

3. Using a spam filter you can filter spam emails using key words. If you use Apple Macintosh and Mail click here

4. If you use Apple Macintosh and Mail for your emails you can automate the reporting of Spam emails.

5. If you use PC you can use MailWasher, which is a mail handling application. It will allow you to select and report multiple spams at once.

You won't stop spam emails completely but you will reduce it considerable and make it more difficult for the Spammers. The more people there are reporting spam emails the harder it is for Spammers to operate. Tell all your friends about reporting Spam and about this website.

The links below will help you to learn more about spam email.

• How to prevent spam
• Tips for computer security and to prevent viruses
• Why do I receive, notices that emails from me could not be delivered - when I didn't send the email?
• How viruses spoof the from-address in emails
• Domain name scams
• Internet and Email Scams
• Why Reporting Spam Makes Sense
• How to prevent spam emails

• Never add your friends email address to websites
• How to prevent computer viruses
• Do not open email attachments you are not expecting
• Do not open attachments you haven't requested, even if they appear to be from people you know
• Be careful who you give your email address to
• Consider having separate personal and business email addresses
• Choose an email address which is difficult to guess
• Don’t advertise your email address
• Check privacy policies and marketing opt-outs carefully
• Don't forward chain e-mail messages
• Learn more about how Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 helps protect against spam
• Tell me about Spiders programs

• How To Report Spam With SpamCop

If you use Apple Macintosh and Mail you can filter Spam emails

1. Open Mail and choose Preferences from the Mail Menu.

2. Select the Rule icon at the top, then click the Add Rule button. Name the Rule in the Description box.

3. Select the appropriate drop down boxes and fill in text boxes with words that contains the emails that you don't want to receive.

4. Choose the "Perform the following actions" at the bottom, then click OK.

You can also create Rules for moving emails to other Mailbox folders. You might choose to do this first so that you can monitor which emails are being moved. Once you have done this for a period and you are happy with the results, then you can change the "Perform the following actions" to Delete Massage

If you use Apple Macintosh and Mail for your emails you can automate the reporting of Spam emails.

You can use AppleScript to automate the reporting of spam email.

1. Open the Script Editor You will find it in the Application folder inside the AppleScript folder.

2. Copy the script below and paste it into the Script Editor window.

3. You will have to change the address of where you report your spam in the script below.

This is the script:

tell application "Mail"
set theMessages to the selection
repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
set newMessage to make new outgoing message at end of outgoing messages
tell newMessage
set content to thisMessage's source
set subject to thisMessage's subject
make new to recipient with properties {address:"http://www.spamcop.net/"}
end tell
send newMessage
set read status of thisMessage to true
end repeat
end tell

4. Save your script and put it in the Mail Script folder, which you will find on your Hard disk, Library and Scripts folder.

Using the script you created.

Before you set up the script to automate the reporting of your spam you might one to try it out first.

1. Select one or more spam emails that you want to report from within Mail, then choose your SpamScript from the Script menu.

Use AppleScript to automate the reporting of spam email.

1. Open Mail and choose Preferences from the Mail Menu.

2. Select the Rule icon at the top, select your Spam Rule then click the Edit button.

3. In the "Perform the following actions" dropdown box, choose Run AppleScript, then select your Spam script by clicking the Choose button. You will have to locate your script from the your Hard disk, Library, Scripts and Mail Scripts folder.

4. Click OK.

These spam emails will now be reported automatically

Note: You won't stop spam emails completely but you will reduce it considerable and make it more difficult for the Spammers. The more people there are reporting spam emails the harder it is for Spammers to operate. Tell all your friends about reporting Spam and about this website.

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