I complained to <a href="mailto:abuse@blackmesh.com" target="_blank">abuse@blackmesh.com</a>, and got the following reply (pasted below). The <a href="http://medispend.com" target="_blank">medispend.com</a> people could inspect the email headers, and complain to the hosting company of the originating email sender. I emailed <a href="http://blackmesh.com">blackmesh.com</a> and <a href="mailto:support@medispend.com">support@medispend.com</a> and asked for the full headers of one of the spam emails. <br>
I know that this is probably futile, but sometimes, I just need to try to stop these people. <br><br>Ursula<br><br>From <a href="http://blackmesh.com">blackmesh.com</a>: <br>This phenomenon is due to a spammer somewhere sending spam to <a href="mailto:support@medispend.com" target="_blank">support@medispend.com</a>, and using your address as the "From" address. Since <a href="mailto:support@medispend.com" target="_blank">support@medispend.com</a>
is a helpdesk, it helpfully replies with ticket-tracking information
you can use to follow your request. As you know, of course, "your"
request is not *yours*, so this reply just looks like spam to you.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, due to the way that Internet email works, there's not a whole lot that can be done by either you or by <a href="http://medispend.com/" target="_blank">medispend.com</a> to stop this sort of bounceback spam. You can read more about the problem at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29</a> . We have strengthened the spam filters on <a href="http://medispend.com/" target="_blank">medispend.com</a>
to try to protect against this sort of attack, but we cannot
unconditionally guarantee that you won't receive further emails if the
spammers elect to use your address in future attacks. If you don't have
any reason to interact with <a href="http://medispend.com/" target="_blank">medispend.com</a>, we'd recommend setting up a filter to automatically delete any messages from <a href="http://medispend.com/" target="_blank">medispend.com</a> (though we'd request that you don't additionally mark them as spam, as they are not, per se).<br>
<br>
We want to extend our apologies to you for the emails you've received,
but hopefully it's now more clear why you received them, and you can
appreciate that we were not complicit in your receipt of them. If you
have any further questions, however, please don't hesitate to ask for
clarification.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>Jeff Brown wrote:<br>
> On 16 Nov 2011, at 7:25 PM, Marty Landman wrote:<br>
><br>
>> At 11:44 AM 11/16/2011, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:<br>
>>> I got 448. The system owner has apologized. Let's stop now, as this<br>
>>> is becoming spam itself.<br>
>><br>
>> I agree. There ought'a be a special corollary to Godwin's Law to<br>
>> cover just these types of situations. Like the Law of Meta-Spamming<br>
>> or something. Just thinking out loud here.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Oh, the irony. ;)<br>
><br>
> I just got a personal email from <a href="mailto:pinky.goyal22@gmail.com" target="_blank">pinky.goyal22@gmail.com</a>:<br>
><br>
> "Sincere apologies for my error that caused automated emails to be sent<br>
> to you from the address <a href="mailto:pinky@evakoss.com" target="_blank">pinky@evakoss.com</a>. I was working on a support<br>
> ticket system for a client and when testing the system I didn't realize<br>
> that the system would send a support ticket in response to your email<br>
> I've received and responded to in the past.<br>
><br>
> I'm very sorry and will take extreme caution so this issue never occurs<br>
> again."<br>
><br>
> But I've never communicated with this person in my life.<br>
><br>
> I'm really battling to imagine an entirely innocent use-case scenario<br>
> for scraping mailing list archives for email addresses and names.<br>
<br>
</div></div>As I stated before pinky was not the sender of the email. Sure it was<br>
the From address but that can be faked. Check the email headers for the<br>
real sender and you'll find "<a href="mailto:millen@iade122lmp01.blackmesh.com" target="_blank">millen@iade122lmp01.blackmesh.com</a>" was the<br>
sender and not pinky.<br>
<div><br>
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Earnie<br>
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