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The spam you get may or may not be from the web site that is listed in the message. Spammers cannot be trusted in any possible way, so unless you have some technical skills as mentioned below, you should let someone else figure out who is responsible and who to tell about it. I highly recommend using www.SPAMCOP.net to report any and all spam. If you follow their instructions you will be able to provide them with the information about the spam you get and they will analyze it to determine who really sent it and who it should be reported to. They also take steps to "hide" your information so that it will be hard for the spammers to find out who is reporting them. SPAMCOP not only reports to the ISP, who may be spam-friendly, but also their larger upstream provider who are generally not.
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Here's the answer from Ken Hollis and the alt.spam FAQ:
Many spammers use throw away accounts, accounts that they know will be deleted as soon as the service gets a complaint. Of course the spammers mentality is "if it is free it is for me to abuse". If the spammer really annoyed you then you might wish to dig and get every account possible deleted. What you need to do is actually go to the WWW page that they advertise, look at the page and usually the page will redirect you to another site (or possibly redirect 2 or 3 times). Send a complaint to these sites (with the original spam). It is important to explain to the site you are complaining to how you got to their site so that they don't ignore you.
In Netscape and Explorer there is an option to "view source". This will pop up a page with all of the http source from the page. This page will have all of the "links" to the next site.
If you look at the http source and it is unreadable (and sez "Haywyre"), take a look at : http://www.netdemon.net/haywyre/
There are spammers out there that actually have a clue. They use open Web Proxies to reroute their web page to another location. When you do a ping of a web site, the ping is of the open web proxy. The open web proxy then redirects you when it gets the request for the web page. A complete technical explanation can be found at: http://www.google.com/groups?selm=3ee16105$1_2@nntp2.nac.net
Another thing spammers do is to abuse free WWW services to set up a web page that is encoded with Java script so that you cannot see what the html looks like. The spammer then redirects the information to their "real" site.
http://www.spamsites.org/decode.html tells us that to decode the Java script and complain to the people that are actually hosting the spammers, set up a bookmark called "Decode Javascript" and set the URL (thanks to Code by Kicken) as the below, the code is all on one very long line: javascript:h=document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML;function disp(h){h=h.replace(/</g, '\n<');h=h.replace(/>/g,'>');document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML='
<html>'+h.replace(/(\n|\r)+/g,'\n')+'</html>';}void(disp(h));
Your computer may take a while to decode all the Java, just be patient.
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