Sunday, April 18, 2010

SPAM update

Unfortunately it would appear that AOL experienced an email Hijack, and our email address was used to distribute spam emails without our knowledge or consent (we would never allow such a thing to happen).  We have been told by some of our friends that they have experienced similar spam emails coming from other people they know using AOL mail in the last week or so.

We have thoroughly virus checked the Wiccaweys computers, and found no viruses of any kind.  This is the first time this has happened in the 10 years we have been using this email address.  Given that we do not use an email client such as Outlook, our address book is held by AOL itself (the addresses are automatically stored by AOL whenever people send an email - we do not add anyone to any kind of address book).

This leads us to the conclusion that this is an AOL issue, rather than an issue with our local computers.  We are sorry that this has happened and are very cross our email address has been used and compromised in this way. 

We have taken as many steps as possible to ensure that this will not happen again, however spammers and email hijackers are very clever, and this is an increasing problem on the internet.

We'd just like to apologise for the inconvenience, but unfortunately it appears there was very little we could do to stop it from happening.

If you should ever get an unusual email from Wiccaweys, please let us know so that we can act on it as soon as possible.

Kind regards,

Sarah & Paul
www.wiccaweys.co.uk

ANOTHER UPDATE:   Its definately AOL centralised as we are now receiving emails of the same sort from other AOL users.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Suspect email!!! IMPORTANT!!

Some devil has managed to spam the Wiccaweys email address today and is sending out spam mail stuff.  Paul is on the case, and we thank you to people for letting us know.    Please bear with us while we get it sorted, but just to confirm, no we don't recommend any of it!  

Sarah