ibe98765 Posted May 29, 2003 Posted May 29, 2003 This is great! Very creative. I got the email below in my inbox, which just happened to come after I had sent an email. I was ready to try to open the attachment, when I said to myself - huh? Looking closer, it became clear that this wasn't a response from my ISP, it was an email that was sent to me. I immediately noticed it was from a hotmail account which raised my suspicions. Then I caught the poor English "Here were errors processing you[sic] mail". I wonder how many people are going to be caught by this, open the attachment and get an infection?---------------------------------------------------Here were errors processing you mail. Please, read detailed information in the attachment ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- myaccount@myaccount.com (reason: 550 myaccount@myaccount.com unknown user account) ----- Transcript of session follows -----... while talking to mail.hotmail.com.>> RCPT To:myaccount@myaccount.com<<< 550 myaccount@myaccount.com unknown user account550 5.1.1 myaccount@myaccount.com... User unknown Quote
nlinecomputers Posted May 29, 2003 Posted May 29, 2003 I'd scan your system. That sounds more like a virus then spam. Quote
Scot Posted May 30, 2003 Posted May 30, 2003 This is, in fact, a common spam trick. It's often employed -- in my experience -- by random email address generators that are just looking for a cheap way to validate your email address.-- Scot Quote
greengeek Posted May 30, 2003 Posted May 30, 2003 If I don't know who it's from I chuck it out! Quote
brucekrymow Posted May 31, 2003 Posted May 31, 2003 Hi, ibe ~Nathan is correct - this is not a spam trick - this is simply a bounced e-mail from someone else's machine from which a virus was/ is resident that had spoofed your address from their address book. Quote
Freddy Posted June 2, 2003 Posted June 2, 2003 I've been receiving several of these emails in the past few days. The message always has a .pic or .hta attachement.At first I thought it was from someone who had my address in their book. Then I started receiving the same messages in an address that I never send from. Wouldn't it be something if a spammer is infected? Tens of thousands (millions?) of infected emails being sent and no way to stop them. Quote
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