Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2005-09-09 at 21:41 +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:
Its a testrun for a spam attack probably. Seems like someone is trying out their brand new spamattack tool. (Same type of message, different sender) I suspect we can look forward to several more of these kinds, and probably later loaded with links or viruses (aimed for the MS menace Outlook and Outlook Express)
I think it is a standard spam, with a random text to confuse filters, and then an attachment that got filtered out and that was the real payload:
It's a ploy to deceive the gullible into thinking that an "alert" from eBay is legitimate. Right after I got this, I got a message from "eBay" telling me I had to log onto their website and update all my user info, or "eBay" would terminate my account within 24 hours. As I always do, I forwarded them to the real eBay abuse department, and got, as always, a return message thanking me for alerting them to a new scam. The shocking thing, to me, at least, is that there are enough fools in the world that fall for this sort of thing to make it worthwhile to the criminals who do this. John Perry