The Best Anti-Spam websites

CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email is an ad hoc, all volunteer organization, created by Netizens to advocate for a legislative solution to the problem of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) - a/k/a "spam" or "junk email". The CAUSE site is designed to provide information about the problems of junk email, some proposed solutions, and to provide resources for the Net Community to make informed choices about the issues surrounding junk e-mail.

This website has information about the Federal Trade Commission's recent law enforcement actions against deceptive commercial email and spammers' responsibilities under the CAN-SPAM law. In the "Consumer Info" section, you'll find tips on how to reduce the amount of spam email in your in-box.

Laws, anti-spam information, and links to other resources.

Follow the Tips, use the Tools and, when necessary, Take Action to help alleviate unwanted e-mails in your inbox.

SpamArchive.org is a community resource that provides a database of known spam to be used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools. The goal of this project is to provide a large repository of spam that can be used by researchers and tool developers.

Supports measures to reduce spam. Newsletters, blacklists, links and more.

This site started in 1998 and remains the premier spam reporting service.

A repository of information on how you can help identify, protect yourself from, and stop various internet abuses, such as Unsolicited Commercial/Bulk Email or ECP/EMP [Excessive Cross/Multi Posting] of Usenet Messages [all commonly known as "Spamming"], Make Money Fast Chain Letters, Rogue Sites, Open Proxies & Mail Relays, Email Worms, Trojans & Viruses, and Javascript Traps, etc.., as well as how to report and fight back if you are the victim of one of these types of abuse. There is information on this site for everyone from the brand new net-newbie through experienced system administrators looking for tips, tools, code or patches.

Few people escape them - chain letters. They used to circulate by regular mail, but these days, they're more likely to come via email or Internet chat rooms.

Spammers typically use computer programs that search public areas on the Internet to compile, capture, or otherwise "harvest" lists of email addresses from web pages, newsgroups, chat rooms, and other online destinations.

The "dirty dozen" are: Business opportunities, Bulk email, Chain letters, Work-at-home schemes, Health and diet scams, Effortless income, Free goods, Investment opportunities, Cable descrambler kits, Guaranteed loans or credit (on easy terms), Credit repair, and Vacation prize promotions.

Phishing is a high-tech scam that uses spam or pop-up messages to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security number, passwords, or other sensitive information.

All about Identity Theft.

Despammed is a free e-mail forwarding and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) spam filtering service. With a Despammed email alias, you can register at Web sites, post on newsgroups and sign guestbooks without worry.

MailWasher is a powerful free email checker with effective spam elimination. Discover the safe way to stop unwanted viruses and e-mails before they get to your computer.

A mail filter, written in Perl, to identify spam using a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text. Free software. Can be used as a standalone mail filter, or from procmail.

The Spam Bouncer is a set of Procmail filters for trapping and discarding spam, and autocomplaining to the senders and their upstream sites.

Free filter tool for Outlook which compares incoming messages against a central spam database.

An e-mail filter program that uses DNSBL lists to filter your e-mail and avoid spam.

UXN SPAM COMBAT provides online tools for tracing and terminating spammers. Tools provided include a Worldwide Whois function, IP Whois, Dig, NSLookup, Traceroute, ping and Decoders.