TuffyDog.com Does Not Spam
We have been receiving a lot of backscatter lately. There have not been any complaints from our visitors or anyone else but we want you to know that we do not send any unrequested emails to anyone. This has been in the news a lot lately and we are just being clear about our policy. You may read the privacy policy for TuffyDog.com here.
This is from a recent news story at Yahoo news:
100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You’ve Been Backscattered.
Spammers like to put fake information in their e-mail messages in order to sneak them past e-mail filters. Because e-mail filters now just delete messages that come from nonexistent domains, the spammers like to make their messages look like they come from real e-mail addresses. That means, if your e-mail address has been published on the Web somewhere, you’re a prime candidate for backscattering.
The spammer finds your address, or sometimes even guesses it, and then puts it in the “from” line of his messages, sending them out to hundreds of thousands of recipients. When the spam gets sent to an address that is no longer active, it can sometimes be bounced back… to you.
Although Sophos estimates that backscatter makes up just two percent or three percent of all spam, antispam vendors say these messages are on the rise lately.
Users often think that the backscatter may be a sign that their computer has been hacked and is sending out spam messages, said Brad Bartman, a global support manager with Text 100, a public relations consultancy. “They look at it and they’re like, ‘Whoa, is my PC infected with a virus?’” he said.
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