Strange email...

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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:31 am

Hello i'm new here - been reading for a while and have a couple of baits in their early stages. However I recieved a bizarre message in my inbox that i'm not sure how to take... any advice? See what you think.

Ahn nyeong,

***
Warning!
This letter contains a virus which has been
successfully detected and cured.
***

And strengthen themselves against the next campaign, the
mighty bhima, with his mace, crushed those noiseless. 62.
i have given as close a verbal of numerous highsouled siddhas,
and having his and to the order, of whose secrets a revelation
in professed testimony bearers for a covenanted foremost
of carwarriors, deprived of car, began of iron, struck duhshasana
with ten shafts in.

Very strange. Also, I must add myself to the list of people who have been inspired by the the Adamu to Abeche safari, top work!! Very Happy

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Just delete it.

Quote:

And strengthen themselves against the next campaign...

^^that bit is just gobbedly-gook (technical term) designed to bypass spam filters by mimicking an email with content.

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:40 am

Thanks will do, was just curious to see if there was anything worth baiting there.

I've had so many scams of various kinds since I set up my email and signed a few guestbooks that I cant handle it all (over 1000 in my spam folder alone), but when a strange message like this comes along it can make you wonder what the point of it is! Smile

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:43 am

God knows.

the block of nonsense at the bottom looks like a decoy chew-toy for a spam filter, as for the virus bit, I've no idea. I've had spam so obscure that I've honestly no idea what it was even for. Guess this is one of them.

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:23 am

There's nobody to bait. Virus spreaders seem to use the same mailing lists as spammers. Even if you find out who sent it, it may have come from an ITP with an infected PC.