News 4/3/2019 - Forged Emails - A Short Notice

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Recently, it has come to our attention that our domain has been slurped up into a spam bot system where producers of spam or actual scammers have been forging emails that appear to come from our domain (tokyoadultguide.com) when in truth, it did not.

We have a monitoring tool in place to capture the feedback loop from failed delivery due to domain rules. For the previous week, 51,000 emails were captured and reported as forged items. For most respectable mail providers, they would have forced these fake emails into various spam and junk mail folders. However, a few have taken notice and send us some direct reports.

Bottom line, TAG does not share nor do we mass-distribute email notices apart from those legitimate system and management emails that originate from our staff and automated tools. For the previous week, we sent approximately 480 legitimate emails.

We expect the issue will pass, but this notice is to remind and assure our members as well as the general public that the spam or scam emails do not originate from our business.

If you have any questions or want to report any specific concerns, please feel free to contact us via our support desk: helpdesk@tokyoadultguide.com - if there is any reason to update this notice, we will do so at the appropriate time.

For technical folks, we've configured strict rules for SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies (these have been in place since the beginning). The fault still lies in the standard SMTP protocol which doesn't validate the sender which enables the forging of 'from' addresses in these spam and scamming emails.

Here's a lovely Wiki article to help explain for those who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing

Thank you for your understanding, even if you're not a member and somehow found your way here because of a junk email that you got, that really was not from us.

PS: If you ever get one of those sex extortion emails, you can safely ignore it. Please don't fall victim to someone demanding bitcoin in lieu of sharing your 'sexy time' videos with your contacts. :rolleyes:

EFF Article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/...ou-get-latest-phishing-spam-demanding-bitcoin
 
Update: 4/16/2019

We are pleased to announce that the situation discussed above has began to subside.

Monitoring Periods:
April 08 - 15: 1,701 Messages Processed (~475 legitimate)
April 01 - 08: 59,013 Messages Processed (~510 legitimate)
March 25 - April 01 - 51,891 Messages Processed (~460 legitimate)
March 18 - 25 - 24,361 Messages Processed (~490 legitimate)
March 11 - 18 - 3,467 Messages Processed (~470 legitimate)
March 04 - 11 - 569 Messages Processed (~500 legitimate)

Once we have established that the issue has been resolved, we will relax the quarantine in place to a lower threshold. (A overly strong rule may force legit emails into spam/junk folders...)

Thank you for your patience.