Security & Privacy
Spam fallout
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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.
- simpleleads.net is the spammer’s site.
- simpleads.net is my site.
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.