Report Email Abuse

if you have received e-mail that you wish to enter a complaint about, please forward a copy of the original e-mail message, with all headers displayed, to abuse@departmentofinternet.com.

In order to forward the full headers of the suspect e-mail please follow these simple steps:

  1. From your email program, get the full headers...

    • Outlook 2013, 2010 (Windows): Double-click the message to open it in a new window. Select the File tab, and then click Properties.

    • Outlook 2007 (Windows): Double-click the message to open it, and then in the Options group, click the dialog box launcher (small square with an arrow).

    • Outlook Web App (OWA): Double-click the message to open it, and then click the Message Details icon (an envelope with a small document over it).

    • Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail (Windows): In the message index, right-click the message, and then select Properties. Click the Details tab.

    • Outlook 2011 (Mac OS X): In your Inbox (or other folder), right-click or control-click the message, and then select View Source.

    • Thunderbird (Windows, Mac OS X): Click View, select Headers, and then choose All.

    • Mail (Mac OS X): With the message selected, from the View menu, select Message, and then select either All Headers or Long Headers.

    • Imail: Select the message, click the ellipses icon in the upper right corner, and then select Message details.

  2. Select the text of the full headers and copy it...

  3. Go to forward the original e-mail and paste the copied text of the full headers into the original e-mail (at the top of the message) and then forward the entire message to abuse@departmentofinternet.com