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Spam Information - January 2004

If you have received spam or virus mails from a GastroScout.com mail address:

We feel your pain, but can't do anything about it. This situation is as aggravating for us as it is for you - if not more - because we were receiving hundreds of undeliverable mails a day ourselves, and ultimately had to deactivate our catch-all forwarding address. There are two possible reasons for such mails:

Unscruplous spammers who spoof a GastroScout.com address in the sender line. If these mails contain a link, try to find out the website owner (with a whois lookup) and complain directly to them and/or their provider (usually specified under "Technical Contact").
The soBig virus, among others, which uses this method to expand. Modern viruses take two random addresses from infected computer's Outlook address book - it uses one as the sender and one as the recipient. An infected file is always sent in the attachment, which you should never open. It is practically impossible to determine the true sender in this case, because the virus uses a random address.

GastroScout.com always uses the address "info

gastroscout

com" to send our mails. If the mail you received was sent by a different name

gastroscout.com, this is just another indicator that the mail could not possibly have come from us.

GastroScout.com wishes you a long, spam-free life!

Jeff Zalkind
Editor-in-Chief and Webmaster, GastroScout.com