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IF YOU HAVE RECENTLY RECEIVED A PIECE OF SPAM EMAIL THAT APPEARS TO BE FROM GRIFFAL.COM These junk emails are NOT being sent by anyone at griffal.com. There are many unethical morons who use the domain names of legitimate businesses in order to mask the junk mail and other nonsense that they email to folks. Its not hard to do, its very hard to trace who is doing it and unfortunately, it happens a lot.
For the most part, these emails are either for discount software or pharmeceuticals. You can the links below to see a screenshot of either of these offending emails. This way, you'll know to delete them! WHAT IS EMAIL SPOOFING? We became aware of this problem because we've been receiving bounced (returned) emails that we never sent that have our domain, griffal.com, as the return address. This is a case of header forgery, aka "Spoofing". Most of these emails are for the usual nonsense; Discount Viagra or other medications, Discount Software, etc. ALSO, BE ADVISED THAT NO ONE FROM GRIFFAL.COM WILL EVER ASK YOU FOR ANY PERSONAL INFO! This is how it is how email spoofing is accomplished: 1. Spammer finds an email address or a valid domain. (Spammers spend their days looking for these.) 2. Spammer sends off a large email campaign using this domain, and various e–mail tools that prohibit easy tracing of the origin. These tools cloak, scramble or remove the header entirely, removing them from initial blame, because most people just assume the mail actually came from the address it was "sent" from. 3. Innocent domain owner gets mail flooded with bounce messages from the email addresses that weren’t valid, or have spam blocking capabilities. 4. Spammer gets shut down by his⁄her ISP inside of a week, due to excessive bandwidth, complaints from people who figured out who actually owned the email, etc. 5. Spammer moves onto the next domain. As you can see, this is incredibly hard to trace, and unfortunately, the general suggestion to get around this is to ignore the problem. However, we are doing everything we can to have it stop, including reporting daily to our ISP with samples of the emails that are bouncing back to us. We’re hoping the can trace the source. This is possibly the most frustrating abuse issue to deal with, simply because it cannot be stopped. Spoofing is similar to hand – writing many letters, and signing someone else's name to them. Just know that it is not us doing it and we are doing everything we can to try and stop it. AL QUAGLIATA, CEO, GRIFFAL PRODUCTIONS PS- You can click HERE to read another interesting article about this problem. |