If you are receiving SPAM email that seems like it came from our domain, please be assured that it is the result of a spammer illegally using a fake return address.

We do NOT send SPAM.

To try to discover where the SPAM really came from, see the full story.

Spammers have been using more insidious methods to get their garbage out on the email networks. While they are still using "time-tested" methods (such as open relays, etc.) to get mass emails sent, they are also getting smarter about disguising the source of the email.

This is another step in the continuing battle between legitimate mail servers and the spammers. In increasing their defensive posture, many legitimate mail servers started rejecting any email that came from an unverifiable domain. If the domain didn’t seem to exist, the email was rejected.

In response, or perhaps just as another element in trying to get their garbage through, spammers have started to create fake return addresses using invented user names attached to real domains, making it look like the email came from a real account at a legitimate site.

Since many email gateways and servers do not enforce extensive checks on the return address of such email messages, especially since email may be relayed by several gateways on its path to the destination, such SPAM tends to get through to the victim.

If you think you’re annoyed with this, imagine what we go through – every day we receive hundreds of these emails that were ‘bounced’ because the spammer used an incorrect email address for the intended victim. Since there was a problem delivering the SPAM, the target email server tries to return it to the source, which it misidentifies, due to the faked return address, to be our domain.

There is very little we can do to stop this illegal activity, since the SPAM email is not coming through our network. You, however, can certainly follow your site’s policies on reporting SPAM (please make sure you indicate to the administrators that they should check the originating IP addresses and ignore the fake return addresses…).

You can also find out more information on blocking such email at <a "href=http://www.spamcop.net"> www.spamcop.net , or by checking out <a "href=http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html"> www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html .

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