Dear Visitors and Members:

In regards to the e-mail issues.  It appears that the bogus emails that had been spoofed using the name of this site are dying down if not done. I can only hope.

I did email the webmaster in China but received no response.  I also posted a notice of assistance on my server's web forum but received a simple answer.  "It happens, it will pass, they will move on to someone else."

The only other notices posted were that of other members telling similiar stories of how this had happened to them and how they too had to wait it out until it was over.

Believe me, this was a tough pill to swallow, I have worked very hard to build a good reputation for this site.  Perhaps that is why we were targeted.  I have always told my members that I would never share their information with anyone, including email addresses, and this email spamming made it look like we had been dis honest.  I assure you this was not the case.

I am sure you have all gotten e-mails that appear to be from popular sites or banks that appear totally legitimate but are just phishing schemes, This time, they just chose to use our site's name as a center for their spamming practices, since we do not do any kind of sales at this time.

I posted the notice on the front page of my site, because I felt it was better to lose a few visitors than have this site appear to be involved in any wrong doing.  I did not want the reputation of this site to be tarnished by something like this, It was my hope to prevent as many as I could from falling victims into this spamming and to understand that we were in no way related to what was happening, unfortunately, we also could not prevent it.

I want to assure you, that you can continue to join the site to become members, that you can continue to email this site, and I will respond to your email with your original subject in the subject line, so you will always know it is a response to your email and not spam.

When this dies down a bit more I will give the members a special code word to appear in the subject line so you will know it is from this site and not another spoofed shceme.

I will always do all I can to protect my members and their privacy.  That is why I chose to approach this head on, and let all of you know what was going on, instead of not addressing it, and just letting it pass.

I am re-posting the original front page message in case some of you were not aware of what was happening and want to catch up.

This is what was posted:

We are fast approaching St Patrick's Day,

Though here at Quick-and-Easy-Recipes you would think it's already April Fools, but it's not, sadly this news item is true.

Although telling you this may hurt the site in many ways, not telling you would simply not be right, so here goes:

The quick-and-easy-recipes e-mail addresses has been sort of spoofed by a compnay in China. I am making every attempt to rectify this matter. If you are receving e-mails from quick and easy recipes*, please DO NOT open them.  They are not from this site.These e-mails are being sent to anyone and everyone, whether or not you visit this site.  I am working with my server and have e-mailed the server in China in hopes of getting this fixed, I will notify you just as soon as more news becomes available.  I apologize for any inconvenince and should tell you this is the spammers latest ploy and could happen to anyone.  I am in no way related to these e-mails, but I am working very hard to fix the problem.  Thank You.

*In consideration of the current happenings with the e-mail issues, all notices regarding printables etc. will be posted in the news section for the time being and no e-mails will be sent out from this site until this problem is resolved. I am disabling the autoresponders from our regular email as well. I have never and will never spam anyone for any reason.