Email Spoofing Alert!
It has come to our attention that spammers have launched e-mail campaigns that look like messages sent by Strathmore Woollen Company.
We have nothing to do with such spam, we do not send, and have never sent spam email of any sort, and strongly oppose the act of spamming or sending unsolicited commercial email. If you have received such spam email we apologise, but we must emphasize that it is totally beyond our control, and we regret very much that we cannot stop it. What is E-mail Spoofing? (Faking or Forging)
"E-mail Spoofing" is the latest abhorent trend in spam. Spammers falsify the header information in their e-mails to make the email appear to come from whoever they choose.
Spammers are now routinely using the e-mail or web site identities of many people on the internet, and using them to send millions of pieces of junk or offending e-mails.
Unfortunately most people who receive these emails don't understand what's happening, which is the whole purpose of the spoof.
What to do.
You have several options of what to do if you receive a spoofed email:
1. Report it to your ISP. Redirect the email on as an attachment to your ISP, ensuring that the whole message is included, or cut and paste the header information from the email. This contains the information (originating IP numbers etc) required for anti-spam systems to filter out this junk mail.
Do not simply 'forward' the message as the essential header information will be lost.
2. Do not respond to the message in any way.
3. Please do not do anything that might result in Strathmore Woollen Company being added to spam lists. We are as much a victim of this activity as you.
Email spoofing information
CERT Coordination Center - Spoofed/Forged Email
Spoofing: Identity Crisis
How to combat email spoofing?
Reading Email Headers:
StopSpam.org
All About Email Headers. This document is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the behavior of email headers. It is primarily intended to help victims of unsolicited email ("email spam") attempting to determine the real source of the (generally forged) email that plagues them; it should also help in attempts to understand any other forged email.
Deciphering fake email or posting? The information provided here, describes how to find out where a fake post or e-mail originated from, decipher which machine it came from and who (generally or specifically) you should contact.
UXN
Tracing Spam / Spam Complaints Assistant:
A one page easy explanation of how to read the "Received:" lines in the email header to trace the spam and who to complain to. With integrated IP Address Lookup.
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