To our loyal friends and patrons:  The domain

ChamberOrchestraOfTheSprings.org

has recently become the target of a spoofing attack (where our domain name has been forged in email or form-mail). Based upon the information that we've received, email (and/or form-mail) is being sourced from various locations world-wide with various return email boxes which seem to be from our domain.

These mailboxes do not exist, nor was any email (or form-mail) sourced from our domain. If you were to send (or reply) to these mailboxes, your email would not be accepted by our mail servers.

To the extent that our domain name was used (even though it was by outright forgery), we apologize.

Please understand that our domain is not associated with these actions by whomever is responsible. We have no idea why this attack is currently underway, but it is undoubtedly by some unfortunate individual needing assistance.

Apparently, challenge-response anti-spam programs have sent us verification requests (some with the original headers), and we will not verify these messages (so the original receiving party should never see the problem). Other anti-spam programs may check that an appropriate sourcing domain was not used (or perform other checks) that should exclude messages that have been spoofed from our domain.

Thank you for your understanding...

- The Chamber Orchestra Board of Trustees, Nov 24, 2006