Laughablely stupid spam
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shadowdude
cynic in training
That is funny! Some people are probably stupid enough to open it though.
MarineCorps
Explosion!
Yeah I got a few of those every so often. Funny to see. 
Through from what I have read they sometimes contain a virus.
Through from what I have read they sometimes contain a virus.
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I think its as a result of a virus - if you read the message, it will probably say something like 'delivery failed, see attached transcript for details', inviting you to open teh attachment, which is a virus. See how they are all 42 kB messages? A real delivery failure wouldn't be that big.
hbdragon88
haunted by blackness
ainwood - I dunno if it's a virus. It just had a link in the message. There were no images in it (unless they were invisible). I have Yahoo's SpamFilter to block images from any suspected email, but it doesn't work too well. Just today I opened up a spam message that Yahoo didn't block. 
The message inside is weird, I don't know what it means:
The message inside is weird, I don't know what it means:
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Ahh! What might be happening is that someone is sending out bulk emails to random addresses, spoofed to look like they are coming from you; so you get the delivery failure reports. Either that, or the that 'message link' isn't genuine.
Could very well be. This article shows how easy it is to mask URLs in emails and online. Even when it looks obvious, it may not be.
As for stupid spam, have you heard about the new nigerian one going around? It sounds like they're the authorities over there, and they want your bank info so they can track who's taken what.... saw that one over at Snopes.com.
As for stupid spam, have you heard about the new nigerian one going around? It sounds like they're the authorities over there, and they want your bank info so they can track who's taken what.... saw that one over at Snopes.com.
