> This is a scam. I have also received emails identical to this one (with a
> different person's name). The person's email has been hijacked.
Relax, folks. There's no hacking, no hijacking, no nefarious technical
implosion of volatile viruses, or anything like that. These mails are
bulk emails sent with an altered mail-to: address or more complex DNS
spoofing (some hacking needed on poor mail servers, but more
doubtfully the source here) to harvested email contexts (so Sue's
original "message" to a list she is part of), probably to either a)
fool stop-words based email filtering, and / or b) overflow various
Bayesian spam filters. The wordings in the email is the key, and quite
cleverly done, with certain words in certain contexts. What they're
hoping to achieve is a reduced guard against certain spam so that
later better spam (or spam-based injection attacks) can get through.
Ignore at will. Some have said they're best to avoid being marked as
spam, teaching certain systems to screw up their filtering, but I'm
not so sure, and if you're using such a system it's a good reminder to
reevaluate it. :)
Regards,
Alex
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Received on Mon Nov 22 2010 - 15:01:22 EST