Re: [cobalt-users] Spammers forging my email address - Urgent

["Steven Werby" <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you do find out who is doing it, you have a good cause of action to
> collect damages. There is already a court precedent. IIRC, it was
> flowers.com.

Dan, I'll have to research that case.  The sender was using a .cn domain
name (China) to promote asiafriendfinder.com.  I did my best to track down
the sender (getting email addresses off the website using the IP# in the
email header) and his ISP (got ISP and user domain contact info from
http://www.cnnic.net.cn/) and contacted the owner of asianfriendfinder.com.
The only one I heard back from was the asianfriendfinder.com owner who
informed me he shut down the offender's account.

This is the first time I've had to deal with anything of this magnitude so I
may report it to cert.org since it may help in the fight against spam.  From
my standpoint it's a denial of service attack.

Steven {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}