One of our support email address has been hit all day with these emails.

I got hit by this s*** too. I'm p*****d off ! ! ! The amount of spam sent is insane.

The best may be to send a mailbomb to their reply email address. At least they won't make money and they may have their account canceled faster by their ISP.

Today I received over 200 mails of this type...

Well, rats. I was sure this was an exclusive offer directed to me because of my superior skilz.

I got a punch of these as well. I even replied asking for more info. so I can visit and shove something big up their gazoo. When will spammer stop? Why can't anyone stop them? I like junk mail/email and junk in general but this it out of control.. Oh well at least I have my hair... oh wait, I'm bolding.

Yeah, I was getting a lot too, until I went into my mail server and had anything with that address redirected to some siegmund.com something or other address.....where ever that is.

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Yes, here too. The volume increased to well over 150 per hour, but it totally died down just now. I created a filter in Apple Mail to take care of it (straight to the trash). Luckily he used the same body text each time. Hope he got busted!

Krip, I finally set up a rule to automatically forward a copy of each message to the email address shown in the body of the spam. I'll bet if everyone who got the spam had done that, it would have brought his server to its knees.

I guess that they decided I was making enough money - cause I didn't get any emails hehe.

Hola todos,

I have the same problem, 600 mails today... hijo de p...

I find this link on google but I don't understand... ooops.
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070912.105610.e6701c72.en.html

I think it's a linux hacker, the best system for that...

I didn't get one but I did get an email from the "IRS" saying I had been selected(!) to receive a refund. And another email in chinese (or japanese) that probably said the same thing.

I received the same email just once -- 2 hours ago. The "From: kim phillip icap@artel.com" was info I didn't see in your messages, so I thought you may be interested. The domain is used by Artel Video Systems, a legit-sounding co. in Boxborough, MA (01719 USA) with a website and #'s/email addresses to contact 24/7/365 for technical service, repairs or customer service (800-225-0228, Select 1 for Technical Support or Repairs).

Incidentally I received my 'invitation' in a mailbox I set up last year, yet today is the first time I ever checked it -- or used it. I was skeptical, but I thought I WAS THE SPECIAL ONE!! There's a bunch of other spam in this 'virgin' email box though . . . Mike

I just spoke with tech support at Artel and informed them of all this. It is too large a company for the person to tell me if they have a 'Kim Phillip' in their company, but they verified with me that their notes of the incident were accurate and assured me someone would get back to me Monday morning.

I work for Artel Video Systems in Boxborough, MA and YES we are a legit company. NO we do not have a KIM or a CORY and YES the IT Dept is aware of what is going on.
We are a small company of 37 and I am pretty sure I am the one who took the call from Mike when he called in Friday morning betweeen 10 and 11 AM

I am sorry that you have received junk mail but I am certain that we did not attack any of you who may have received it

Mike, you should never rely on the "from" address in spam. The spammers always hijack innocent email addresses to send their trash. In this case, I'm sure Artel had nothing to do with the offending message, although I appreciate Sarah's taking the time to respond.

These emails are not coming from Artel. If you look at the IP address of the orginal sender you'll notice it is not our artel.com ip address. Someone has been sending emails out saying they came from artel.com. I have traced most of the original IP address to various servers in Russia. If you turn on your "Reverse IP" lookup on your server these emails will be blocked. They can lie and say thier email address is artel.com but they can't use our IP address.

This kind of thing happens a lot. They use thousand of servers to send mail out so I can't track it to one server. They choose our domain for some reason now. There is nothing I can do to stop it. I'm not happy about name being used like this either. But who do I call to stop someone who may be somewhere in Russia?

Dan, we've all been there. My domain name has been hijacked a number of times and placed on spam in the sender field. It's an unfortunate side effect of living in a digital age.

Well the big spam lists like spamhaus have not blocked us. They look at the IP alone. They are marking the people out there that have an unsecure smtp server that are relaying these emails. But I'm sure many individuals are blocking mail from artel.com.

But I'm sure many individuals are blocking mail from artel.com.

I suppose it's possible, but here's my theory: those who are smart enough to know how to block an address are also smart enough to uderstand that the spam isn't actually coming from you.

Things are pretty quiet on my home e-mail front (for once). However, my work address (which I use only for work and so can't figure out how it got in the hands of spammers) is being hit by a flood of offers for... eh... things that hum.

And I don't mean ads for beekeepers' school.

Foo, did you put your email address on your company website? That's the kiss of death. You'll get tons of spam after that. Even when you posted it on sites like this they can find it. Just like google does.