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OffTopic > Spam from "Gbadev-org"

#35200 - sgeos - Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:40 am

I got a strange piece of unsolicited email.

Displayed in mutt wrote:
X-Original-To: sgeos@granicus.if.org
Delivered-To: sgeos@granicus.if.org
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:34:37 -0600
To: "Sgeos" <sgeos@granicus.if.org>
From: "Gbadev-org" <gbadev-org@pineight.com>
Subject: Is delivered mail

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HTML contents wrote:
Thanks for use of our software.


Edit
Clearly the sender should have have sent the source along with the app so I can compile and run it on my unix box. =)
/Edit

-Brendan

#35213 - tepples - Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:19 pm

I own the domain pineight.com, and I often use a different part before the @ sign for each site to which I'm giving my address. The address "gbadev-orgâ’¶pineight?com" means that a virus picked up my address from this site (through a web cache?) and forged it on messages sent to you.

(Addresses unicodefied to protect innocent mailboxes.)
_________________
-- Where is he?
-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.

#35216 - Lord Graga - Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:24 pm

You also seem to have sent me something strange sgeos, you might have to check your machine.

#35491 - sgeos - Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:08 pm

sgeos[splat]granicus.if.org? I'm sure the machine is fine. It's a unix box. My email address is all over the web though. (Maybe thats why I'm getting ~100 spam every time I check my inbox.)

-Brendan