I have been getting at least 2 emails daily for the past 10 days from these clowns. They are peddling some worthless college degrees.

I have been fed up with the emails coming from, what looks like myself! This spammer has a phone number for contact which is 301-396-3506 and belongs to a University Program (that's how they identify themselves). I get a lot of them because I have a lot of web pages with email that fall in the same place. I am assuming it is a web crawler picking up the email addresses. This is what I do with spam:
I hit forward and send them to SPAM@UCE.GOV and let them take care of it. Every day I send all my spam there and eventually they stop. I do like the calling 100 times a day to the phone number though idea, but who has that kind of time?

Have received several emails like:

Today only:
We can assist with Diplomas from prestigious universities based on your present knowledge and professional experience.

Get a Degree in 5 weeks with our program!

It is from my address to my address with the this number to call.  Why isn't the government doing anything to stop this type AHs!

Just received Spam which downloaed into my home pc from this Gyspsy outfit purportimng to be involved in university degree programs.  I already forwrded copies of this Spam to ken.cuccinelli@attorney.general.va.gov , eric. older@attorney. general.gov, us; info@fbi.gov and spam@uce.gov.  T am tired of receiving this inspid stuff.  In addition, I truly belive that these Gypsies are reall involved with internet drug trafficking rather than universit programs.  The university programs, which obviously are bogus, is just a ruse.

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I had the same thing happen.  I was able to call him and speak to him and it stopped.  BUT, a couple days later I got several hundred more of the same BS email with a different number at the bottem.  It lasted a few days but seems to have tappered off as well.

I mean't to say he convienently didn't have an e-mail address.  I also called him back and spoke until he said he was "uncofortable with the conversation".   I haven't been spoofed since.  It stopped that day.  The best advice is confrontation.  Use one of the names of your returned e-mails and get the jerk to call you.  

We could also file an FBI complaint complaint.  Which is just what I theatened to do if I got one more spoofed return.  This guy or these guys are cowards who scam dumb people.  Call him and tell him to stop or else you will file complaints and do everything in your power to make there lives equally miserable.  It was driving me crazy too. All this advise about how you can't stop it is BS.  Figure out who they are and make it stop.  Got my e-mail address back.

Just got another 150 from the same thing but with a new number.  1-916-484-3795

Everyone needs to fill a FTC complaint about this to get anything done.

I also set my my spam folder to block emails witht hat number, but it has not made a difference, I still got 20 of them in my regular email inbox and another 210 of them in my spam folder.  I need to find a way to make this stop.  It is making my insane.

What was the email address of this so-called Dr. Mark Richards?

These b*****ds have hacked my acct. as well, please post the email address he supplied you with- let's nail these scumbags!

They are using my address too.  I called the motherf'r and left my "false name and a phone number said I was interested in a degree.  This guy called called me back name "Dr Mark Richards".  A proffesser at a colorado university who convienently did have e-mail.  

I am now making it my mission to get even for what i consider slander.  I am considering filing a police report in maryland.  Where the 301 number is located and another in NY where the number he called me from a cell phone 646-217-4938.  These people sucker idiots into buying a ficticious degrees.  Scum bags all around. Please feel free to call this a-hole(s) and get your pound of flesh too.

A way to at least stop the returned e-mails is to go into your spam filters and block all e-mails with the phrase_______  I used the phone number 301-396-3506 as the phrase,

Lets Calling the number 1-301-396-3506.  It ios a answering machine but if we all call we might at least pissing them off.  Be sure to leave a message or else the machine won't record

I got another 150 of them last night.  Has anyone figured out how to stop this?  I am getting tired of dealing with it.

I have been getting hundreds of these a week too.  Is there a way to stop it?  Starting to really annoy me.

same thing is happening to me.  i got 400+ bounced emails returned to me yesterday.  the world is full of AH, i guess.  one day, it will come back to him.

I too have been recieving failure messages to my e mail.  They have taken my email address too. sucks If anybody founds out post here to have it stoppped

Someone is using my email also as the return address with this phone number in it as well - I've gotten 143 emails in my bulk folder in the last 3 hours.  Not sure how to remedy it yet....

The same thing has been happening to me I have reported it to the FBI's internet crime reporting system and the IRS's abuse web site as the returned emials I was getting about a week ago were spoofed to look like the IRS's electronic payment system failure.  I have also reported it to the FTC however so far nothing has been working.

These AH's are using my email to send this spam out.  How can I stop this...

Same thing is happening to me, up to 500 bounce backs a day. On top of which, I get angry emails from the people being spammed, which baffles me...Who responds to spam?

The return email address is DEFINITELY faked / spoofed, as one of the "undeliverable" reports just came to me. Somebody has been having a lot of fun spoofing my email address, and I'm not sure how to report it to Yahoo. I've started getting hundreds of bounced email notices over the past few weeks.

I just found some info on this. It is an old scam called a "Degree Mill" and there is an Federal Trade Commision site where you can file a complaint and report it.....copy and paste the .gov link below and towards the bottom is a link to report this...probably should make a new complaint every time the contact phone number changes in the email.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt149.shtm

Maybe it's a meaningless email from a spammer who is trying to identify and compile "spam traps"? I wouldn't call the number, it's probably some poor guy's number who has nothing to do with this. The email's IP is probably faked and the return email address is probably spoofed. Just be glad you are not the owner of that phone number OR the return email addy being used. You would be getting hate email and phone calls.

I'm considering spamming the spammer.  This guy has a voice mail box.  I'm going to start calling it 10 times a day.

I received an email with this phone number about getting a university degree.