I was going to upload the photos for the 4th of July weekend this morning, before leaving for our road trip. I also thought I would check some alternate email accounts and it turns out that I have 250+ new emails for one of them. This is quite strange since I rarely use that email account so I knew this number of messages could not be a good thing.

As it turns out, some spammer decided to fake an email address for a different domain that I help with as if we actually had sent the messages. Of course, the bad thing about spam is that someone has to clean up and when these messages where bounced back as undeliverable or as spam, they ended up back at the “faked” email account. All of the messages were delivered very early this morning and things appear to have died down, so I am assuming the number of messages sent on our behalf were minimal, at least for the time being.

I am not sure what would be the proper way to handle this since disabling the account would simply send back a notification, through such email message into a never ending loop. I will have to look into the RFC to see what should be the appropriate action in our end. For the time being, we posted a message in that website, letting people know that we had nothing to do with those messages and we are not involved in any drug selling business. Uploading photos will have to wait a few more days too.