How to report spam sent through my website contact form without blocking it?

Question

Despite the Google captcha protection I receive some spam from my website contact forms.

I want to report these spams but without blocking my contact form address.

Explaination: when somebody send a mail from the contact form, the mail goes first to my website server (contact@mywebsite.com adress), and is automatically redirected to MyPrivateAdress@gmail.com. So I can't use the Gmail "spam report" option to report the spam@spam.com without blocking contact@mywebsite.com address.

Any idea how to report that kind of contact form's spams?

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '14 at 15:06

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There is basically only two options to do anything about it:

Look up the management contact for the ip sending spam, (the whois utility can do it for you,) and send them an email and hopefully the spammer will be suspended.
Block the IPs/IP ranges that is sending the spam from your contact form.

answered Oct 05 '14 at 15:06

remmy

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The third option which is real life observation. Reporting it is a waste of time as the source for this stuff is usually completely outside of anyone's jurisdiction. – Fiasco Labs Oct 05 '14 at 17:26
In my experience the ISPs that owns the IP range often suspends them, but some don't care, sure. – remmy Oct 05 '14 at 17:53

How to report spam sent through my website contact form without blocking it?

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