Errata

Some spamming scumbags in China want me to undermine my own business and support theirs. How nice.

They’re hacking into servers in Germany, Brazil and Vietnam (so far) to send their spam (hacking like this is illegal just about everywhere) and forging headers in doing so (which is a violation of law in the U.S., not that they care about that). They’re also using virus-infected cable-modem accounts in Canada and the U.S. to send spam, so blocking IP addresses of the “usual suspects” like China, Korea, Germany and Brazil won’t do much good.

I can’t imagine anyone being dumb enough to send work out to spammers in China for Photoshopping, especially to an unknown outfit with no web site and whose only email addresses are with Chinese web mail providers. Yeah, I’m sure people willing to break laws against hacking and spamming will respect your copyright (snigger). They’d never dream of selling your work as their own….

Seriously: They’ve already engaged in criminal behavior just getting this message to you. Don’t even think about giving these people your credit card number. (That may, in fact, be all they’re trying to do: collect credit card numbers.)

So just for reference, beware of spam containing the email addresses ibphoto@163.com, contactrick@126.com or imremove@yeah.net (this last address being the one for requesting that you be removed from their mailing list – don’t even think about sending email there as you just confirm your own email as valid so they can sell it to other spammers).

Notice that they each email account is through a different webmail provider, 163.com, 126.com and yeah.net. Spammers do this just in case one of these sewers (they’re all domains known for spam support) ever gets their feet held to a fire and has to start ditching spam accounts.