15 Jun 2004
I’ve been an accidental casualty in a spam campaign.
There’s a spammer sending out links some affiliate program he belongs to. The affiliate’s URL is very similar to a domain I own, and this moron spammer mistyped the affiliate URL. All the sudden I start getting spam complaints. But it took a day for someone to actually send me a copy of the spam they were complaining about. Until I saw it, I assumed that someone had spoofed my email address as the sender of the spam.
Spammers are scumbags. And the stupidity of this spammer has caused me a whole lot of problems.
To make matters worse, the mis-typed URL that links to my site instead of his was the address for the opt-out link. So people that think an opt-out request actually works are flocking to my site and complaining. I had to put up a page at the URL of the accidental spam link explaining what happened.
Adam,
This is hardcore bad luck… I would hate it and find your landing page great.… I think that’s the best you can do about that…
After all various worms and spam-bots are sending out stuff all the time with out domains, isn’t it? I get around 20-30 MTA error messages from unreceivable mails back to any-spammer-word@mydomain.com … don’t you too? What can we do about THAT? being the victim to send out penis pills and mortgage spam to unknown people with our good names?
best regards,christoph
Adam,
I can’t think of a worse snafu to be caught up in. FWIW, I think you handled it in the best manner possible. It had to be a pain to go through, but it looks like you’ve really kept your head high on this one. Nice job.
Did you consider putting a redirect at that address on your site forwarding to simpleleads.net ?
Adam Kalsey
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Email: adam AT kalsey.com
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Graham
June 15, 2004 12:23 PM
Man. That really sucks. Sorry to hear that, Adam.