Sal, I've received what I think is SPAM under guise of "in partnership with Spyderco"

I sent Spyderco an email asking about this and they politeely replied that they knew nothing about him, thanked me for notifying them, and said that they were looking into it. I also sent him and email asking who he was, what he did, and how he got my name and address. I haven't heard from him as yet. Nor do I expect to hear from him.
 
*slumps head*
Rule number 1: never reply to spammers.
If the reply address is not spoofed and it's the spammer, all you're doing is just to confirm the email so he could send you more spam....
 
1)At the time, I did not know that it was a spammer.
2)He had an auto notification on it so he knew that I had opened it.
3)Everyone gets fooled once in a while.
 
if you fiddle around in outlook express you should be able to find an option to NOT send confirmation regardless of whether or not one was requested.
 
Well I'm not really scolding you or anything but I thought I've posted before about not replying to them.
Mess around with the setting and you should be able to set it so that you could choose to send a confirmation receipt or whatever they call it. So if it's someone who knew you and had request an receipt, you could let them have one while avoiding doing so to others who you don't want to let them know you exist.
They could figure that if it didn't bounce back, it would be fine, but most cases spammers won't use their own email and they don't really have a way to check whether the email address is a real one. If they did use an email address that they have access to, not replying may be able avoid letting him know that your email exist and you've read it.
Anyways it's done. It's not that big of a deal.
They better nail this a$$hole......
 
Calyth, it IS a big deal to me! I am furious with this guy for abusing the name of a company that I have come to trust almost implicitly, and Spyderco and Glock are just about the only companies about whom I can say that. I would not have even considered opening the damned thing had it not been worded to say, not imply but say, that he was working with Spyderco. I hope that Sal and company can catch the b*st*rd and hang him out to dry for so abusing their name. I believe that I am even angrier about this than I am about the ChiCom POS knives that look like Spydies.

Sal, if you read this, I may disagree sometimes, such as when I mistakenly thought that you were changing the Lightweight Native or with the decision the discontinue my favorite pocket knife, the StarMate, but I really mean what I said about my opinion of your company. I feel that I can state my disagrrements with friends honestly and they will repy in kind, as you have always done.
 
Originally posted by FullerH
Calyth, it IS a big deal to me!
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FullerH: What I meant is your reply to the spamming address is no big deal, no that this spamming act is no big deal.
I wonder how a spammer tasted after we take pre-production Impala and skinned him :p ;) (j/k of course)
 
I have not experienced this spam e-mail, however i do receive spam email regularly, its a real pain in the ass to check your mail box thinking you have important email only to find it full of useless crap.
I strongly encourage everyone not to reply to any suspicious emails and especially not to click on any links they may include. I clicked on a link in what turned out to be a spam email once before, only to have my internet account broken into and my email address used to distribute the same sort of crap. The advice i give you now is a repeat of what the AOL representative told me when i called about my password having been changed. Better safe than sorry.
 
My original post was intended as a heads up for Sal and Joyce and forumites here at bf and spyderco forum. Sorry if it became another post to fight about.
Call off Suerte and RCMP!
Chase terrorists, speeders, drunk drivers and idiot people setting off fireworks while in the midst of a drought.
SAFE 4th y'all

John
 
Oh yeah, using a good password is a good advice. :)
(sorry for hijacking the thread :p)
Don't use something easy like Jennifer (that was one of my netadmin's password when I was in high school. I was given the permission to show them how easy it was to get their passwords), use seomthing that's not going to be found in an dictionary.
I don't know much cracking, but those are the simple advices that would save you a lot of headache.
 
I got one too. I will immediately present this case to our newly appointed international supreme court for international spamming crimes against spyderholics!!!;)

Wouter
 
Now the spammer tries to extort a little cash. :rolleyes:


Edited because I tend to belive their latest reply.
 
RDomina: Can you forward a copy of that letter to me?

I thought that you cannot serve "legal" documents through email.
Also, if you guys don't have accounts there, why are you worrying about them extorting your cash? Did the spammail have your personal information on it, and if it does, does it match?
I don't know about what you guys think, but it's pretty obvious that this spammer doesn't like this ISC2 thing and is trying to piss people off so that they could bomb this guy.
 
Here's their latest reply.

Please be assured of a number of things:

1. The e-mail you received was not sent by our organization or anyone on behalf of our organization.
2. We maintain limited personal information on ONLY our constituents.
3. We have never maintained ANY information of a financial nature on anyone.
4. We have never divulged ANY information to anyone outside our organization absent appropriate disclosure and contracts.
5. We do not know who you are nor do we have any information whatsoever regarding you.

That being said, we have someone who is going to great lengths to spoof our e-mail addresses and tarnish our image. We are as much a victim as you are. If you look at the IP header information of the message sent to you, you will notice it in fact does not originate from our organization. We know who this person is and we are going to great lengths to pursue legal recourse, however it is very costly and time-consuming due to his geographical location and efforts to hide the evidence to link this to him. We regret the confusion and inconvenience this may have caused you.

Sincerely,

Dorsey Morrow, CISSP
(ISC)² Operations Manager and General Counsel
 
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