How to Report a Spam, Scams and Abusive Use of Email Accounts and Hosted Websites

If you have received spams and scams that are coming from a Yahoo, Hotmail, AIM, Excite, Gmail or other public or free email account, you can report it to the provider to have them shut that account down.  Here are the addresses -just forward the email to the appropriate address with the subject "Abusive use of account":

Email providers

• AOL - For AOL members only to report spam: tosspam
• GMail - gmail-abuse@google.com  - Report GMail spam
• Hotmail - report_spam@hotmail.com 
• MSN -  report_spam@msn.com
• Yahoo.com email accounts: abuse@yahoo.com;
• Yahoo.co.uk email accounts: uk-mail-abuse@yahoo-inc.com

Website hosting providers

• Yahoo! Stores - To report Yahoo! Stores that are advertised in spam emails - store-spam@yahoo-inc.com

• Yahoo! Hosted Domans - to report Yahoo! hosted websites that are advertised in spam emails: domains-abuse@yahoo-inc.com