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Email spam reporting service

SpamCop is an email spam reporting service, allowing recipients of unsolicited bulk or commercial email to report IP addresses found by SpamCop's analysis to be senders of the spam to the abuse reporting addresses of those IP addresses. SpamCop uses these reports to compile a list of computers sending spam called the "SpamCop Blocking List" or "SpamCop Blacklist" (SCBL).

SpamCop was founded by Julian Haight in 1998 as an individual effort. As the reporting service became more popular, staff were added and the SCBL became more useful. It has commonly been the target of DDoS attacks and lawsuits from organizations listed in the SCBL. Email security company IronPort Systems announced its acquisition of SpamCop on November 24, 2003, but it remained independently run by Julian Haight. A small staff and volunteer help in its forum. IronPort agreed to become a division of Cisco Systems on January 4, 2007, effectively making SpamCop a Cisco service. Julian Haight left approximately two years after the Cisco acquisition. SpamCop views itself as an attempt to stop spam without the necessity of governmental intervention, but because it lacks the power of a government or large ISP, it may have greater difficulty dealing with spammers' expertise as well as the large bot networks that they control and that they used to cripple Blue Security with a massive DDoS attack. SpamCop previously provided paid email accounts through Corporate Email Services (CES). On August 9, 2014, in an email to email account holders, CES announced that "[a]s of September 30, 2014 (Tuesday) 6pm ET, the current SpamCop Email service will be converted to email forwarding only with spam filtered by SpamCop for all existing SpamCop Email users" and that "SpamCop will no longer provide IMAP or POP service [after that date]." As of 10:31:56 UTC on 31 January 2021, the domain and all sub domains of spamcop. net resolved to a domain parking service due to the domain being expired. Later that day the domain was renewed and the service was again running. The outage resulted in messages being rejected due to the blacklist DNS entries all directing to the domain parking service.

For first time SpamCop Reporters, the SpamCop Parsing and Reporting Service requires that the reporter manually verify that each submission is spam and that the destinations of the spam reports are correct. People who use tools to automatically report spam, who report email that is not spam, or report to the wrong people may be fined or banned. This verification requires extra time and effort. Despite these steps, reports to innocent bystanders do happen and ISPs may need to configure SpamCop to not send further reports if they do not want to see them again. Here are some limitations of SpamCop:

False Positives: SpamCop may sometimes flag legitimate emails as spam, leading to false positives. This can be frustrating for users who rely solely on SpamCop for spam detection. False Negatives: Conversely, SpamCop may fail to detect some spam emails, allowing them to reach the user's inbox. This can decrease the effectiveness of SpamCop as a spam filtering tool. Over Reliance: Depending solely on SpamCop for spam detection can lead to over reliance on the tool. Users may neglect other spam filtering methods or become complacent in recognizing spam without the aid of SpamCop. Limited Email Providers: SpamCop may not be compatible with all email providers or may not be as effective with certain providers. Users of less common or niche email services may not benefit fully from SpamCop's capabilities. Dependence on User Reports: SpamCop relies on user reports to identify spam sources and block them. If users do not report spam or if there is a lack of participation in the SpamCop community, its effectiveness may diminish.