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Spam Links Index > Spam Tracing

To link to this page use: http://spamlinks.net/trace.htm

Spam Tracing

Don't jump the gun! Read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page if you haven't a clue what you are doing.

• Understanding Tracing
• Headers
• Tools
• Researching Spammers

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Understanding Tracing Spam

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These links should help to give a grounding in tracing spammers.
For other help understanding and dealing with spam see also: FAQs > Net abuse

http://www.camblab.com/nugget/extermin.htm
http://chickenboner.com/antispam/
http://combat.uxn.com/tracing.html
Spam Tracking 101. mirrors: 1 2 3 4
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1998/0400/spam_tracking.html
http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~tburgess/local/spam.html
http://www.qsl.net/spamfaq.html
http://www.jcrdesign.com/junkemaildeal.html
http://www.jump-around.com/essentials/junk_email.html
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05032
http://www.dfn.org/focus/internet/trace-email.htm
http://spamid.servebeer.com:8081/utils/include/spamid/reserved_blocks.jsp (reserved IP blocks)
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/issued/ (issued RIPE IP space)
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html (IP prefixes that should not be routable)

General Deobfuscation

http://gregsearle.tripod.com/spam_tech.html
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/spam/dirty.shtml
Some excellent posts by an author posting as "spamless@nil.nil", who is very thorough and worth reading:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=news.admin.net-abuse.email&as_uauthors=spamless@nil.nil
http://www.jgc.org/tsc/ (tricks that spammers use)

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Email Headers

These resources will help you to understand what the different parts of an email header mean, and how that can help you to trace a spammer.
For automatic report tools, some of which automate some parts of header reading see: Report > Help

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• Header Reading
• Full Headers

Email Header Reading

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• English
• German
• Russian
• French

English Header Reading Advice

http://www.earthlink.net/epa/spam.html
http://help.mindspring.com/docs/006/emailheaders/
http://www.sputum.com/sputools.html
http://www.rahul.net/falk/mailtrack.html
http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn29/headers.html
http://www.angelfire.com/pop/cram/spam/SMTP.htm
http://www.studio42.com/kill-the-spam/assistance/
http://www.expita.com/header1.html
http://mail.vene.ws/analisi.shtml (online analysis)
http://www.theinquirer.net/email_tracker.htm

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German Header Reading Advice

http://sites.inka.de/ancalagon/faq/headerfaq.php3
http://members.surfeu.at/privacy/howto/spammers.html

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Russian Header Reading Advice

http://www.peterlink.ru/support/headers.html
http://www.antispam.ru/4user/examples_header.shtml

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French Header Reading Advice

http://assistance.wanadoo.fr/reponse207.asp

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Accessing Full Email Headers

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• Various
• Specific

Various

http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html
http://pobox.com/fullheaders.html
http://www.haltabuse.org/help/headers/
http://www.spin.it/spam/spam_headers.php3
http://web.mit.edu/stopit/fullheaders.html
http://www.spamabuse.org/resources_headers_main.aspx
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/headersfull.html

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Specific Packages

http://www.daesoft.com/freeware/spamsource/ (Outlook - get this program!)
http://www.wurd.com/eng/ABCs/mac_headers.htm (Outlook Express for Mac)
http://www.wurd.com/eng/ABCs/ms_headers.htm (Outlook Express or Internet Mail for Windows)
http://www.wurd.com/eng/ABCs/ns_headers.htm (Netscape Messenger or Mail)
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/junk/headers.html (Pine, Eudora and Mulberry)
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mlambert/findeh.htm (Outlook Express, Netscape)
http://community.webtv.net/@Lookup/IOM/doc/ (WebTV)
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/config/config-11.html (Yahoo!)
http://www.terra.com.br/informatica/ajuda/tutoriais/receberspam.htm (Advice in Spanish - Espanol)
http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/viewheaders.htm (Outlook)
http://www.scc.net/techsupport/spam/outlookexp.html (Outlook Express)
http://members.home.nl/marf/headers.html (Outlook - Dutch)

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Anti-Spam Tracing Tools

Various spam tracing tools are available at this local page: Tools

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Researching Spammers

Simply using technical tracing tools won't always get you results.
Various public resources exist that can help with further research to identify a spammer.

Spammer Research

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