Re: Strange E-mails

[Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA>]

For many many years, I've received similar emails.  All the symptoms of spam
but selling nothing and no attachments, either.

I don't know.

If testing the address, why not have a real payload (spam) anyway.  It doesn't
cost any more.  Its content isn't really something to elicit a response either.
Also testing the validity the address is most frequently (and successfully) done
by including a unique URL which contains the email address as parameter.

I've been receiving things like this from time to time for over 10 years
now, and I don't have a satisfactory answer.


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:58:16AM -0700, Chris Kidd wrote:
> This may have already been addressed, but we have been receiving a number of strange e-mails - no attachments - with 
> the following in the message:
>
> ----------
> From: Mrs. Hook [mailto:wswilliamscott5 () gmail com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:45 AM
> To: <redacted>
> Subject: Hello
>
> Hi Sir/Madam,
>
>                Have a nice Day.
>
> Regards
> Hook
> ----------
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this and if so - any thoughts as to what's behind the e-mails?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris

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Pete Hickey
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