I'm happy to see Experian fined. Last year, Experian kept sending me spam with the footer "This is not a marketing email" and I kept trying to unsubscribe. Eventually, I filed a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that this violated CAN-SPAM. I'd like to think that my report contributed to this fine (although that's probably optimistic). In any event, Experian had to take the time to respond. They…
I’ve also had good results from reporting CAN-SPAM violations, or just threatening to. When I get marketing emails without a working unsubscribe link I send a message to customer support saying that I’ll report each subsequent email I get as a violation. In one case the violator didn’t offer email or chat based support so I just reported each email, and they quickly taped off before stopping entirely.