No, it was not me that spammed you

I’ve just received a couple of incoming emails. Spams. (Actually, I received a whole bunch, but there are two in particular that are worth mentioning here) The sender is well, “me” — only it’s not me.

Spammers have added this domain name, auntialias.com, to their list domains to originate spam. So the first part of the email address, before the @ sign, is some goofy name, like dillamor or something. They’d send out a whole rash of them, about once a month. How did I know they did it? Because I’d get all the bounced emails, the one that say, “Undeliverable.” A total pain in the butt, those hundreds of bounced emails.

Other times they go through cycles, and create plain old first names, so john and betsy and susan and fred and margaret are the names that go before the @ sign. But I’ve seen that on the recipient end. Mails are sent to me at all those addresses.

In the last day or so, something new has happened. The sender address is my personal email address. No, I didn’t send it. I’d never do that. Who knows how many others have gotten those emails, too. That’s why I’m announcing this on the site. I didn’t do it. I am as much a victim of spammers as you. Moreso in this case: this kind of thing leads to my email address being blacklisted. Not happy. Not happy at all.