While the answer can depend greatly on the agency you are attempting to inform, I believe that in general you should. In fact, since monitoring and responding to the abuse mailbox for our organization is one of my primary job duties, I can positively say, ‘Yes Please!’. I had this same conversation with members of … Read more
Generally speaking, you are acting as a neutral carrier and probably shouldn’t be inspecting content. The general process for handling abuse reports is to setup a ticket system or even just a mailbox that picks up for abuse@yourdomain and then forward reports to the end user. I’m saying generally because while I have plenty of … Read more
This is spam at the least – at worst, it’s a scam. Do not agree to send a read receipt. Do not download unnecessary content. Do not click links. Do not reply. Do not pass Go… etc. As others have mentioned, protecting your contact details in whois information may help eliminate these emails; I’d also … Read more
You could do this based on IP address using a free IP Locatin API like IPInfoDB http://ipinfodb.com/index.php.