Ack! I started off the day with 2500 email messages! 2450 of it spam. Someone used meryl.net to send spam. The sender name had all kinds of first and last names, so my inbox (the catch-all for meryl.net. A catch-all email address gets all emails that have been misspelled or don’t exist.) got all the delivery and confirmation failures.
I make my main email address the catch-all since I check that box most frequently. Hmm, maybe I need to change it to route it elsewhere so I don’t deal with all this garbage.
Why did a spammer choose meryl.net? It’s not like I’m a big company with lots of email addresses like yahoo.com or aol.com. I’m just a little one-person biz.
It’s been a long time since it happened, but I got a few angry emails telling me to stop spamming the recipient. But I haven’t seen those in a long time and meryl.net has been used a few times since. So I hope that means Internet users have a better understanding that spammers rarely use their own email addresses.
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I’ve been getting hit by these spammers since April. It’s really frustrating. I posted about the experience here:
http://www.zone38.net/blog/2006/04/19/774/
The comment from Don Wright on that post links to several other people who have had their domains trodden on by spammers.