WANTED: Spam e-mail (appearing to be) from ventry.com

Following the conviction of a spammer in Virginia (msnbc article) we received drastically fewer mailer deamons, but they have since picked up. The mailer deamons are what clue us in when someone is spoofing us.

To reduce spoofing, we use images instead of text to show our contact emails because users can see but search engines can not. Our hunch is that spammers search the Internet for instances of the @ symbol followed by “.com” and steal them for their own use.

If you have received an unsolicited e-mail from any e-mail address ending in "@ventry.com", please contact us! We would really appreciate a copy (Please email it to us)! We DO NOT send spam so any spam messages containing our domain name are fraudulent.

Spoofing: Sending spam using someone else’s domain name is called spoofing, a form of internet fraud in which an e-mail is made to look as if it originated from one source when it actually came from another. It is “often an attempt to trick the user into making a damaging statement or releasing sensitive information (such as passwords).” Our site does not gather any sensitive information from our users, so it appears such attempts are unproductive using our domain. It is, however, a malicious and costly nuisance, especially when our legitimate emails are categorized as spam!

We will take any and all measures to discover and prosecute anyone who sends spam using ventry.com, to the most extreme degree possible, in order to protect our customers, products, and reputation. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or irritation such an e-mail might have caused you. Please contact us if you have any information or questions.

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