main11 Jul 2006 02:02 am
The Most Cryptic Piece of Spam Ever
I just got the most cryptic and unusual piece of what is presumably spam-ish mail. I can’t think of anything that would solicit it, so I can’t really make a guess as to what the motivation of the sender might be. How odd.
Delivered-To: jlassoff@gmail.com Received: by 10.78.123.3 with SMTP id v3cs132694huc; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.75.2 with SMTP id c2mr285475nfl; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <7Grd5pbsm8@mail.ru> Received: from 3e70dd7d.adsl.enternet.hu (3e70dd7d.adsl.enternet.hu [62.112.221.125]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id xxxxx; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: softfail (gmail.com: domain of transitioning 7Grd5pbsm8@mail.ru does not designate 62.112.221.125 as permitted sender) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:51:57 -0060 From: “August Jarrett” X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.10.01) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: “August Jarrett” X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7532152923.20060711085157@mail.ru> To: jlavayen@gmail.com Subject: 344 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit “In view of your bravery beyond the call of duty, and as an exception, “I certainly wouldn’t object too much if we did…” that map of theirs. “What are you doing here? The cliff! Haven’t I didn’t I.., die?”
Any ideas as to what this could possibly be?
Jof -
I got something similar a few days ago. While I am in no way an expert on this, I think it is a spammer trying to check for working email addresses while circumventing the spam protection in many email accounts. I suspect they are looking for the addresses which don’t bounce back.