The wily spammer can use many tricks to hide his true home address. There are some techniques
to overcome some of the spammers ruses. Take a look at this
example
or this
one
Now that we have an IP address to work with we can use one of several tools to get more information
about the originator. We can plug the IP address into
Ping
and get the name lookup. You can use
NSLookUp
to do the same.
More usefully you can use
Whois
to look up the site owner's email address. lastly you may need to try
Trace Route or TraceRt for really difficult cases.
See the
tools page for more detailed information about using these tools.
I generally have good response from messages to major ISPs about spammers on their sites.