i've got some virus spam emails today with that sig too. it's not that hard to deal with, i mean, since when do we ever trust an email? i am suspicious (rightly so) of emails that even come from friends. with all the spoofing about.
I am careful to the extreme about not accepting anything I don't recognize (my blacklist is massive) but yesterday I almost got tagged. Bastid had an account of noreply@mydomain with a header saying *Notice of Account Suspension* and inside the text said my host had detected that I had become infected by an e-mail forwarding virus and I should visit both mydomain's homepage (legitimate and recognizeable URL was linked) for further cleaning information, as well as follow the instructions of an attached .pif file to purge the virus or my account would be suspended forthwith. Needless to say, the attachment was a virus. I can't imagine how many people probably fall for this scam. I almost did and was lucky that my AV software automatically deleted the attachment before I had a chance to open it. Scum.
I've been getting some from my school account. Norton catches them all. They are even being disguised as notices saying my email got bounced that i sent when i didn't send any and to click the link if I dont see the text in the email.
I wish the world would grow up and stop this childish crapola.
I actually got one just like what bash mentioned a few weeks ago. I introduced Beagle to my middle finger and sent it into cyberspace hell.
Folks, you don't even have to be on an address book to get this ★■◆●. If your e-mail account can be found in a dictionary, it'll send you one. Its called a dictionary attack, a common spammer tactic to get people on their lists. They don't even require you to respond or look at any transparent 1x1 gif files. If it doesn't bounce back, you're on the list.
I'm still waiting for it to be legal to execute spammers.
cdn_merlin wrote:They are even being disguised as notices saying my email got bounced that i sent when i didn't send any and to click the link if I dont see the text in the email.
this *could* be a legit email. your address may have been spoofed as the sender address, so the spam message got bounced back.... to YOUR address.
i get a lot of bounced legitimate messages that are undelivered spam, where my email addy has been spoofed in the "from:" field.
hmm, but you are probabaly right, coz generally the bouncee domain will quote the entire message in the email it bounces back to you. i guess it depends on the domain's auto-bounce-quote policy.
i came close.. i had the same mail as Bash. I checked what the attachment was. sure enough, a .pif. i went 'hang on a second.. a pif file? didn't i hear something about this a while back?'
See kiddies, it pays to listen.
roid, if it bounces it usually has the word 'undeliverable' in it.
