[SC-Help] Paypal/Ebay reporting error (deputies?)

[Brian (SnSR)]

Blammo wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2005 Mike Easter entered spamcop.help and left 
> news:d418so$dlo$1 at news.spamcop.net:
> 
> 
>>Actually there are guidelines at phish help sites for how to go about
>>notifying about phishes, including central phish places.  In fact,
>>sometimes /only/ the central phish place wants to know, and the phish
>>entity doesn't want to know/ care/ about the/your spam problem.
> 
> 
> Some of these places want you to go through too much trouble, you have to 
> find the page, read the instructions, then do it their way which is often 
> copy-paste bologna. Or some like to bounce your reports because they 
> contain a spamvertised URL (hey, that's what we are trying to prevent).
> But I've sent user reports via Spamcop to spoof at paypal.com, and I don't see 
> a problem with that. It's not reporting the URL, but the eMail as a spoof. 
> I've done a CC to them, but it's usually easier to use Spamcop, since I'm 
> reporting it anyway.
> 

I agree, as long as you uncheck the links of the innocent bystander so 
they don't get reported/added to any block list.

I will usually also manually report the phish link to the host provider. 
I feel that including PHISH in the subject line helps get their 
attention and possibly gets the site shut down quicker. I would imagine 
that a good abuse desk would use filters to sort higher priority items 
such as phish and Lolita spam, though that may only be wishful thinking 
on my part.