Spam from Organic Spam.com?

You may have received email recently purporting to have come from us from our campaign, or be about our campaign – perhaps the "From" and or "Reply-to" addresses look like they are coming from our site. Or perhaps you have received a message that appears to come from an individual (if the address is real, the real owner probably did not send this email either) with suppressed recipients. Or maybe you received an email that appeared to come from yourself promoting our site.

These messages are NOT from Organic Spam.com and these email tactics are NOT condoned by our campaign in any way.

How can this happen?

It is trivial for someone to forge the From: field in an email message, and therefore the From: field of an email message does not necessarily indicate the true source of the email. Someone with the proper knowledge or software, such as a spammer or virus author, could quite easily forge the From: field of an email.

Our hosting service has alerted us to say that our site appears to be the target of what is called a "Joe Job". Such an event is where a spammer forges email to make it appear to have come from some other domain (such as ours – or you). This is hard to prevent on our end and part of the insecure nature of the email protocol in general.

Most of the Spam that we have received complaints about appears to be forged from email addresses not associated with Organic Spam.com.(often forged to appear to be coming from government email addresses).

If you are on our lists, you can ALWAYS unsubscribe at ANY time by following the instructions included at the end of our announcements.

If you are receiving this SPAM, we extend our apologies. Regrettably, we do not have any control over the source(s) of these "spoofed" emails mis-using our campaign's name and/or website address.

Many thanks for your patience and assistance in this matter.