What you are observing is, IMO, purely coincidence … a major spam hosting ISP was taken down last month (lifehacker had a article on it) … which probably accounts for the drop in spam you are receiving.

Nobody is investigating individual spam reports these days.

Prior to joining KNUJON, I forwarded spam to the FTC & you are correct, the authorities just maintained statistics, my spam continued to grow. But since I joined KNUJON, my spam has taken a huge nosedive in volume, from hundreds per day to less than a dozen a week, the SEC enforcement division has taken punitive action against people doing stock swindles in the spam I forwarded, thousands of spammers have lost their ISP accounts, and some ISPs have been put out of business.

Depending on how the current fight at ICANN goes (domain registrars that support large scale cyber crime, we may see a further drop.

Al: To be honest, I don’t see how knujon can do anything to reduce the amount of spam you receive. Reporting spammers to the authorities is a waste of time, because the authorities usually have no power to impose penalties.

Only a handful of spammers have actually been prosecuted … and, in at least one case, the decision was overturned.

Most spammers operate outside the US (even if they are located IN the US). The SEC, FDA, etc, have no authority.

I use knujon (no junk backwards) which reports troublemakers to relevant e-police for whatever evil they pushing (phishing, scam, counterfeiting, id theft, whatever) and helps them with their change of address to live in prison. End result is astronoomical reduction in spam to me, by the e-criminals not yet behind bars.

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