To victims of our domain name being spoofed

For at least a year, our web domain (www.rockscryout.com) has received requests from people asking us to "stop sending them spam" (Unsolicited E-Mail).

Rocks Cry Out does not send out bulk e-mail.
We never have.

We have learned that some person or persons have been "spoofing" our domain name by sending out Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) that use bogus names and sender's e-mail address in the "From" field.

The fact that the "sender" appears to have a "rockscryout.com" e-mail address makes it look like it came from our domain

Example:

Message-id: <000a01c6d7c1$2fa0e02f$b98b85db@zgqxr.ncssf>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:39:40 +0800
From: Anthony Herbert <lpnyps@rockscryout.com>
To: your e-mail address
Subject: sheik butter

Some of the e-mails contain advertisements for "penny stocks" touting projected investment return of these stock symbols.

Some of the e-mails contain advertisements for pharmeceuticals and instruct the recipient to follow a URL link in the body of the e-mail to purchase various drugs.

• Spoofing is the illegal technique of using someone else’s domain name or e-mail address in the "Sender" or "Reply To" address fields in an email message.
• Spoofing is a common practice used by spammers. It is illegal as detailed in the Federal Can Spam Act of January 2004.

There are at least two victims injured by Spoofing: the recipient who recieves annoying spam, and the innocent person or company who appears to have sent the e-mail and gets blamed for the annoyance.

and may become a victim of "phishing".

More Info:

Report spam to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by forwarding a complete copy (including ALL message headers) to spam@uce.gov

Click here to download an informative letter in PDF format available at Earthlink's security response center and elsewhere (used by permission).