It's clearly "have a go at Ashley" week. In addition to the attempted theft of £2000 from my credit card (and believe me, I won't let that turn into real money!) some internet wag (for "wag" read "wanker") out there has decided to use my "ashleyfrieze.co.uk" domain as the originating source for their spam. What does this mean? Well, when you send an email, you need to provide a return address. When you're sending spam, you don't want a real return address, nor do you want one which is commonly used for spam. So, you choose a random domain (ashleyfrieze.co.uk in this case) and a random name in front of it (HLK@ashleyfrieze.co.uk for example) and then send out a bunch of spam.

This doesn't make me a spammer. It makes me look line one, which is not good. Annoyingly, though, the receiving systems if they don't like the email might bounce back a message telling someone to sod off. Where does that message go? Me. That's right. I'm being spammed by the collective recipients of spam that's spoofed to come from my domain. So, I'm getting about 100 messages a day at the moment telling me to sod off. They're from computers, and are easily spotted. I don't even open them. Still, it's a deluge I don't need.

Could people stop pretending to be me. Being genuinely me is hard enough without all these bloody tribute acts. If you want to be me so much, why don't you come around and help me with the DIY. Selfish bastards!