Today is Wedsday which is my longest day to work.  The girls have a little art class after school so I don’t have to get them until 2:00.  I was all ready to sit down and do some major sales calls and marketing since
Taiwan told me my onboard date for my 15,000 units will be 4/26,( I’m feeling the pressure) but today was going to be a banner sales day.  So I sit down and open my email to just see about orders and see if there is anything pressing only to find that someone has hacked into my email and is using my domain to send out thousands and thousands of spam emails all over the world!!!  I’m soooo frustrated, sad, defeated, and down right PI$$ED OFF!!!  Who does this kind of cr@p??!!!  I’m typing right now as I’m on hold for my email support person so I can figure out what happened and change ever password I have.  This will be hours worth of work and loss of productivity because I can’t very well do any sales while I’m on hold for …… we are going on 6 minutes now.  Why do people do this?  What possible thrill is it to mess with people like this?  I’m so upset, I can bearly type.  Maybe that’s the thrill.  Okay spammer… you won!  You’ve got me rattled right now; I hope you’re satisfied with yourself!  AHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!  9 minutes on hold and still I have not talked with a real person…. 

Okay, so I have been SPOOFED!!  Spoofing is when a person or a company hijacks your domain and sends out mass emails using your name.  Apparently it’s a very common problem.  My web people (go daddy) said they see it all the time, but they have systems in place to prevent the emails from going anywhere.  I totally don’t understand the technology behind it but basically my tech guy said once the spammer sees that his spoofing is unsuccessful he’ll give up and move on to the next domain.  Usually they stop trying within about a week.  I’m much calmer now… sorry for the outburst earlier.  It’s just so frustrating that as mompreneurs we work so hard and struggle every step of the way to raise a family, build a company and keep our sanity that when people do things like this out of sheer meanness, it just breaks your heart.   

Leslie Haywood, Founder and President of Charmed Life Products, Inventor of Grill Charms™  www.grillcharms.com 

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