how to report child abuse spam?

[treacletart]

I've just been sent a horrible spam email promoting links to images of child abuse - what should I do with it? I dont want to ignore it. Is there an established method of reporting it or should I just call my local police station?

I've been told that if you respond to an email these people sending them on spec will continue to bombard you. Personally I would feel better passing on the information - the police station will not be able to trace the spams but at least you've reported it and the can inform whoever they need to.

Definitely report it to police. Who was the service provider that the e-mail came from, eg .freeserve, .hotmail etc? Find their homepage and make a complaint via them too - if nothing else they can block the account.

I've just phoned my local police who are getting back to me - guess I'll contact my service provider too - but I cant see who the spammers service provider is.

I hate having this in my inbox - the police have asked me to hold on to it until they get back to me - I've been sent dodgy stuff in the past - hasnt everyone? but this is just so horrible

I get about 200 e-mails a day all spam. they range from credit cards to even a "rape" site. I gave up reporting them to the service providers because they just open another adress elsewhere or are operating from several different ones at once. I no longer check that e-mail adress, the inbox is now full and will stay that way. If anyone does know a way to stop these so called illegal spam messages I would appreciate it.

I have never recieved a child abuse one yet though.

Treacletart Did you join friends reunited? because that is where these people got my e-mail adress from.

Definatly do something about this one though. Not sure what would actually work, try right clicking on it and you should get the properties of it this should give you the real e-mail adress that the message originated from then try someone like the NSPCC or childline they should be able to tell you who to contact.