Earlier this week, I posted a rant about three near-identical spam messages I’d received from spock.com. It turns out that they (apparently) weren’t spam at all, but that the site was contacting me on behalf of someone (as yet unknown) who had my addresses listed as part of their contacts. The messages were supposed to have that person’s name in the from-field, instead of mine.

There’s still something that smells a little fishy about this — very few of my contacts have that particular set of addresses, for instance — but I’m willing to accept that explanation until more evidence appears.