I had the same issues...I e-mailed spam cop and this was the reply i got:
I'm sorry you got tangled up in this. The mail you're getting that looks
like it's from SpamCop is a forgery. The whole thing is a hoax. We have a
revenge seeking spammer who is trying his best to cause trouble for us by
causing trouble for you. This is the eighth such attack on us
recently. The text attachment containing a fake message from Steve Linford
is a new addition. There is no such project, nor would any of us ever
participate in such a thing.
SpamCop is an anti-spam reporting service that sends something like 100,000
complaints a day to spammer hosts worldwide, which has made this particular
spammer very angry. However, we only send complaints about specific
messages, not general indictments of a system, or anything like that.
Actual SpamCop complaints would come from an address like
[email protected]. Each complaint has a unique numbered
address. Spam complaints are the *only* mail we send. We do not promote
ourselves, nor do we work with bulk mailers or list managers. Obviously we
send bounce notices and stuff like that, but generally not anything else.
We would appreciate it very much if you would not block
[email protected],
[email protected], or spamcop.net in
general. However, addresses such as postmaster, webmaster, hostmaster,
abuse, support, etc, are not in use on our system, so you could block mail
from them because any use of those addresses would be a forgery.
You can see a sample SpamCop complaint
here:
http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/338.html
You can read the latest about the forgery
here:
http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/124.html
- Don -