16 December 06

You Are Not Getting Spam from the Colloquial Tongue

Spam…the scourge of the online universe.

Most of us hate it, but sadly many shitbags make a living (or try to) from spam, with no regard to the immense social and technological complications it causes.

There are many kinds of spam, and I’m not going to go into that, nor am I an expert on the topic, but one spamming technique that is particularly problematic for Web site owners is called spoofing.

Spoofing is basically a kind of identity theft of Web site owners; the results of which are that spam appears to be coming from you (the innocent Web site owner) when it fact it’s originating somewhere else (the shitbag spammer), and mostly untraceable. This has bad implications for the victimized site owner who’s identity has been stolen, and sadly there’s not much that can be done about it. Some states in the U.S., like Washington, even have laws against spoofing, but it’s basically a useless legislation as there’s nothing you can do if the spammer has hidden their identity (originating source of the spam).

I have been spoofed. My domain name here, colloquialtongue.com has been hijacked and countless amounts of spam are being sent around the globe to people by way of phoney (non-existing) email addresses at my domain.

This makes it look as if it’s me doing the spamming, I’m not, so if you are getting some of this spam, please note I am not sending it, and I’m powerless to do anything against clearing my identity from the false source (my domain).

I am actually the one who is most victimized here, for two reasons:

  1. Now the colloquialtongue.com domain potentially gets a bad reputation with respect to spam protection organizations.
  2. For all the recipients of this spam that have good spam protection installed, the spam gets bounced back to me as undeliverable and so my email box fills up with the bogus spam that supposedly I sent but never really did. Hence, not only am I spoofed, but I get all the fucking spam too, more so than the hapless target recipient.

Anyway, there it is, one of many woes us site owners must risk. The point of this article is to just let you know, in the event you’re an angry villager with a pitchfork or burning torch, that I, Doctor Frankenstein, did not create the monster; I’m a victim like anyone else, even more so.

Floral Pattern

  1. isabelle :: 16 December 06 :: #

    Sorry to hear that !
    Bon courage !
    Isabelle.