Dec
20
2005Dear Guy Who Sent Me a Death Threat for Spamming Him…
20
2005
> jeff@chaxxxxxxx.com wrote:
> > If I get another spam message from you I am going to hunt you down and kill you, I am completely
> > fucking serious.
> > —– Original Message —–
> > From: jeff@chausse.org
> > To: jeff@chaxxxxxxx.com
> > Sent:
> > Subject: Your lady will be enchanted by your sexual powerViagra Pro.
From: jeff@chausse.org
To: jeff@chaxxxxxxx.com
Subject: Re: Your death threat
Dear jeff@chaxxxxxxx.com,
If you’re “completely fucking serious” about hunting me down and killing me, then I’ll “completely fucking seriously” contact my state police department. Think twice before sending death threats. They’re quite illegal, even if you’re just trying to be dramatic, which is obviously the case.
It’s common knowledge that spammers use fake email address senders. They got my email address the same way they got yours - by harvesting it off of web sites via automated robots. Look at my email address then look at yours. And also consider the fact that I currently have spam from “jeffchavez@[—.com]” and “jeff@ch[——-].com”. This should give you some insight into how spammers decide what name to slap on their spam mails.
Every month or so my email address “wins the lottery” and I have the “honor” of having my name attached to thousands of these mails. I then have to weed out hundreds of returned emails and, if I’m lucky, a few death threats.
The spams aren’t even going through my server. I know this because I reviewed the headers of the ones that bounced. Even if the spams WERE going through my server, it wouldn’t be my fault. It would be the fault of my hosting service. Contact them via www.hostgator.com if you think it would do any good - which it won’t. The mail did NOT come from their servers.
Have you looked at my web site? Does it give the impression that I’m desperate to make a quick buck by spamming? I’m a senior level engineer at Microsoft. Microsoft is known to pay their senior level engineers quite well. I don’t need to peddle \/1AGrA to get by, thank you very much.
I’m sorry that you were inconvenienced, but I had nothing to do with it.
Jeff
Incidentally, I don’t use jeff@chausse.org any more for this exact reason. It somehow propagated through every spammer’s mailing list in the world and I now receive (and SEND, apparently) over 100 spams a day. If you need to contact me, there’s a link at the bottom of the page. If you’re nice, you’ll receive my super-secret new email address for future correspondence.