Goals - Enforcement and Threat Assessment

The aim of SPOTSPAM is to facilitate legal action against spammers at the international level. While most spam cases have an international dimension, legal action against spammers is impaired by a lack of border-crossing exchange of knowledge or the fact that lawsuits for damages are regarded pointless by individuals.

Therefore spam complaints can be submitted to the SPOTSPAM database via national Spamboxes. The information stored in the database shall enable appropriate authorities to take action against spammers. Additonally, law suits can be more successful when they can be based on multiple end-user complaints in various countries.

With the support of the European Commission's Safer Internet Programme, appropriate agreements shall be drafted to enable gathering and sharing of information stored in the database in a legal manner and to develop a the technical requirements for the database.

SPOTSPAM shall help to make successful:

Further, more information is needed in order to be able to develop appropriate responses to new threats. SpotSpam is a valuable tool to gather relevant information at the international level.