This evening I received lots (128+) of backscatter spam emails from someone who is forging the emails' "From" header using my This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it email address.  Because it's backscatter spam I can't view the original emails' full headers and take any action to report the sender's IP address or ISP to the FBI or complain to the originating ISP.  So, after warning the sender via email that I would do so if he did not stop, I'm resorting to using public shame.

I'm writing this post to publicly defame "Bill Braun" and the "International Charity Company," whose German name is "Internationale Wohltätigkeits Gesellschaft," and to attempt to preserve my good name.  If you received an email purporting to be from this company, please know this is a spam email, and I did not send the email to you.  I recommend you do not do business with the "Internationale Wohltätigkeits Gesellschaft," if it is a real company.  Its name does not appear on the internet, so I doubt the company even exists.  The only place I could find it mentioned is on this native German-speaker's blog, who says the email is spam, and notes that it uses incorrect grammar, so is a good example of bad German someone fished out of the "Babelfish-Aquarium."

The HTML version of the spam email is below.  At the bottom of the email, I've included several of the email addresses I've found in the backscatter spam I've received, to help you be sure you received the same email I'm describing.