If you've received one or more unwanted emails sent from either 1001.com or postcards.org, there's a high likelihood they were not sent by 1001 Postcards or from our servers.

If you've been receiving fake virtual postcards that look like this:

-----Original Message-----
From: Postcards.Org [mailto:*some random email address*]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 2:45 PM
To: *your name*
Subject: Worshipper sent you a postcard from Postcards.Org!

School mate has created a greeting ecard for you at Postcards.Org,
the Internet's most popular greeting card service.

Your greeting card ID is: a9ebeed435601e5ee713076

To see your custom greeting card, simply click on the link below:
http://74.74.104.245/?a9ebeed435601e5ee713076

Send greeting cards from Postcards.Org whenever you want by visiting us
at:
http://Postcards.Org/
Copyright (c) 1996-2007 Postcards.Org All Rights Reserved

These are NOT sent by us, nor were they sent from our servers. They're sent by virus-infected computers around the world. You should immediately delete those emails, and never click on the links.

The New York Times just ran a story on these emails, and how much they're annoying everybody. They're certainly annoying the heck out of us.

We also have a page dedicated to these emails here.

If you've been receiving spam emails from @1001.com or @postcards.org addresses that are trying to sell something, those messages are NOT sent by us. They're sent by spammers, spoofing our email addresses. Unfortunately, we can't directly stop them from doing it, because they're not sending the mail through our servers -- they're just putting one of our email addresses into their email program. (Imagine someone you don't know, sending threatening letters through the regular mail, but signing it with your name and your return address. How would you stop them?)

We absolutely never ever send unsolicited email. Spammers are the hellspawn of the earth, and deserve the death penalty for the global frustration and expense they cause.

What can you do about spam emails?

• Report them to the US Department of Justice. Forward the emails to SPAM@UCE.GOV.
• Use SpamCop, a free spam-reporting service, that helps you report spammers to their ISPs.
• If you're using a free web-based email service like Gmail, use the "Report As Spam" button on each spam message you receive.
• Examine the headers of the email, and complain to the ISPs that appear in the "Received" lines, as those were usually the servers used to send the email.
• Use a spam-blocking service, or an email client with a built-in spam filter, like Mozilla Thunderbird.

If you've been receiving harassing virtual postcards from our site, sent by someone you know but don't like, then that's something we can stop. We don't like it when people use our cards to harass others. Forward a copy of the notification message to us at , with a note telling us that you'd like your email address blocked from our system, and we'll be happy to oblige.